Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell







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Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell
by Judy Cassab
oil on canvas, 1957
36 in. x 29 3/4 in. (914 mm x 756 mm)
Given by (Anna) Dora Gaitskell (née Creditor), Baroness Gaitskell, 1972
Primary Collection
NPG 4923
Sitterback to top
- Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (1906-1963), Politician; leader of the Labour party. Sitter in 29 portraits.
Related worksback to top
- NPG x137687: Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell with his family (includes the portrait)
Linked publicationsback to top
- Audio Guide
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 235
Events of 1957back to top
Current affairs
Harold Macmillan takes over as Conservative prime minister, manoeuvring Eden out of power after his poor handling of the Suez Crisis the previous year.The Wolfenden Report recommends that homosexuality should no longer be a criminal offence. It still took ten years, however, before any changes were made to the law on homosexuality with the Sexual Offences Act in 1967.
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The Treaty of Rome leads to the formation of the European Economic Community. Officially beginning on 1st January 1958, the EEC established a European Common Market, where goods, services, labour and capital could move freely within the European member countries, and shared policies were agreed for labour, social welfare, agriculture, transport, and foreign trade. The EEC preceded the European Community, and the European Union.Tell us more back to top
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Ron Schaffer
23 January 2016, 22:45
The artist's maiden name - surname - is spelled Cassab. She died in 2015