Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
(1888-1965), Politician; Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime MinisterSitter associated with 97 portraits
Morrison was elected to a succession of influential positions in local government, starting with Mayor of Hackney in 1920, and membership of the London County Council in 1922. He entered parliament during the first Labour government of 1924 as MP for South Hackney. Minister of Transport in Ramsay Macdonald's 1929 government; member of Churchill's War Cabinet (1942-5); as Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security (1940-5) created the National Fire Service; Foreign Secretary (1951) under Clement Attlee. He retired in 1959 and accepted a life peerage. Entering the House of Lords as Baron Morrison of Lambeth, he fought to stop the abolition of the London County Council, dying in 1969.
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, June 1948
NPG x90724
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, June 1948
NPG x90725
Clement Attlee and Prime Ministers at the Commonwealth Conference
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 11 October 1948
NPG x71999
Clement Attlee and Prime Ministers at the Commonwealth Conference
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 11 October 1948
NPG x72000
Clement Attlee and Prime Ministers at the Commonwealth Conference
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 11 October 1948
NPG x72001
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Howard Coster
print, 1953
NPG x2044
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Howard Coster
print, 1953
NPG x2045
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Howard Coster
print, 1953
NPG x2046
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1953
NPG x2047
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Howard Coster
print, 1953
NPG x2048
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Baron (Sterling Henry Nahum)
vintage print, 1953
NPG x135065
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
vintage print, 17 October 1962
NPG x137361
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Howard Coster
print
NPG x2049
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Howard Coster
print
NPG x2051
The Fairy Ring (Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth)
by Bernard Partridge
pen and ink, 1935
NPG D9869
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Henryk Gotlib
pencil, circa 1939-1945
NPG D13609
Possibly Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Henryk Gotlib
pencil, circa 1939-1945
NPG D13611
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Henryk Gotlib
pencil, circa 1939-1945
NPG D13616
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth and one unknown sitter
by Fred Roe
pencil, 12 September 1945
NPG D43257
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth
by Lafayette
half-plate nitrate negative, 30 November 1928
NPG x47436
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