Sidney and Beatrice Webb with relatives
91 of 91 portraits matching these criteria:
- set matching 'Sidney and Beatrice Webb Family Album'
Sidney and Beatrice Webb with relatives
possibly by Sheila Cameron Meinertzhagen (née Macnamara)
vintage snapshot print, 1942
2 1/8 in. x 3 1/4 in. (53 mm x 82 mm) image size
Purchased, 2007
Primary Collection
NPG P1292(91)
Sittersback to top
- Barbara Drake (née Meinertzhagen) (1876-1963), Political activist and writer; daughter of Daniel Meinertzhagen VI and niece of Beatrice Webb. Sitter associated with 5 portraits. Identify
- Luke Meinertzhagen. Sitter associated with 1 portrait. Identify
- Sidney James Webb, Baron Passfield (1859-1947), Politician; MP for Seaham, social reformer, economist and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Sitter in 90 portraits. Identify
- (Martha) Beatrice Webb (née Potter), Baroness Passfield (1858-1943), Social reformer, economist and diarist. Sitter in 76 portraits. Identify
Artistback to top
- Sheila Cameron Meinertzhagen (née Macnamara), Wife of Luke Meinertzhagen. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Hampshire (sitters' home, Passfield Corner, Hampshire)
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Events of 1942back to top
Current affairs
The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief is founded in Oxford with the aim of sending food through the Allied blockade of Nazi-Occupied Greece. The organisation continued after the war to relieve suffering as a result of the war in Europe, and eventually to help distressed peoples internationally. It gradually became known as Oxfam, after its telegraph address, and is now one of the largest international development and aid agencies.Art and science
Desert Island Discs is broadcast for the first time. Each week a famous guest is invited to select which eight pieces of music they would choose to take if they were castaway on an island. The show is still going and is the longest running music programme on radio.Enid Blyton publishes her first Famous Five children's book: Five On A Treasure Island.
International
The Allied forces sign the 'Declaration by United Nations', pledging the signatories to fight together until the end of the war and establishing an international organisation with the aim of upholding world peace and security with Sir Gladwyn Jebb as the first Secretary General.In Berlin, senior Nazis plan the 'Final Solution' to exterminate European Jews, and start building death camps to carry it out.
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