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Enoch Powell

(1912-1998), Politician, classical scholar, linguist and poet

(John) Enoch Powell

Sitter in 32 portraits
Started his career in 1938 as Professor of Greek at Sydney University. After the War he joined the Conservative Party and was elected MP in 1950. Controversial throughout his career, he held strong views on issues such as race, national identity, immigration and the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community, which later became the European Union. He is renown for his 1968 'Rivers of Blood' speech in which he warned of what he considered would be the consequences of continued unchecked immigration from the Commonwealth to Britain. In a statement the day after the speech Edward Heath dismissed him from his shadow cabinet saying in a statement "I have told Mr Powell that I consider the speech he made in Birmingham yesterday to have been racialist in tone and liable to exacerbate racial tensions. This is unacceptable from one of the leaders of the Conservative Party".

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Enoch Powell, by Neil Martinson - NPG x139813

Enoch Powell

by Neil Martinson
giclée print, April 1981
NPG x139813

Enoch Powell, by Anne-Katrin Purkiss - NPG x29287

Enoch Powell

by Anne-Katrin Purkiss
bromide fibre print, January 1987
NPG x29287

Enoch Powell, by Fergus Greer - NPG x126887

Enoch Powell

by Fergus Greer
Lambda print, 1992
NPG x126887

Enoch Powell, by Rowel Friers - NPG D189

Enoch Powell

by Rowel Friers
pen and ink, circa 1986
NPG D189

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Enoch Powell

by Elliott & Fry
bromide print, 31 December 1955
NPG x91026

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Enoch Powell

by Elliott & Fry
half-plate negative, 31 December 1955
NPG x82410

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Enoch Powell

by Rex Coleman, for Baron Studios
5 x 4 inch film negative, 16 September 1965
NPG x125935

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Enoch Powell

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 8 June 1978
NPG x171723

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Enoch Powell

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 8 June 1978
NPG x171725

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Enoch Powell

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 8 June 1978
NPG x171726

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Enoch Powell

by Bassano Ltd
half-plate film negative, 8 June 1978
NPG x171727

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Enoch Powell

by Central Press
bromide print
NPG x21784

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