Lord David Cecil
(1902-1986), Scholar, teacher and writerSitter in 74 portraits
Scholar and biographer; A Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History at Wadham College in the 1920s, Cecil left academic life in 1930 to devote himself to writing biography and criticism. He returned and was Professor of English Literature at New College, Oxford University (1948-69); His works include a study of William Cowper, The Stricken Deer (1929), Jane Austen (1935) and two volumes on Lord Melbourne (1939, 1954).
Lord David Cecil; L.P. Hartley; Virginia Woolf; Anthony Asquith; Sylvester Govett Gates
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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Lord David Cecil; L.P. Hartley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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Bob Gathorne-Hardy; Lord David Cecil; L.P. Hartley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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Peter Ralli; Jean de Menasce; L.P. Hartley; Lord David Cecil and four unknown sitters
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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Lord David Cecil; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
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Philip Morrell with friends at Garsington
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, January 1927
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Vivienne ('Vivien') Eliot (née Haigh-Wood); Lord David Cecil; Elizabeth Bowen; T.S. Eliot
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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Group including James Stephens; Vivien and T.S. Eliot; Lady Huxley and Alberto Moravia
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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Group including James Stephens; Vivien and T.S. Eliot and Lady Huxley
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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Lord David Cecil; Vivienne ('Vivien') Eliot (née Haigh-Wood); Elizabeth Bowen
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1931
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Lord David Cecil; Rachel (née MacCarthy), Lady David Cecil; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1933
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Lord David Cecil; Rachel (née MacCarthy), Lady David Cecil; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1933
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