'Labour Members of Parliament and their wives who visited Germany in the Spring of 1909'
5 of 13 portraits of Will Crooks
'Labour Members of Parliament and their wives who visited Germany in the Spring of 1909'
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, 1909
6 1/8 in. x 8 1/8 in. (155 mm x 205 mm) image size
Given by House of Commons Library, 1974
Photographs Collection
NPG x36285
Artistback to top
- Sir (John) Benjamin Stone (1838-1914), Politician and photographer. Artist or producer associated with 1436 portraits, Sitter in 28 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Elizabeth Crooks (née Lake, later Coulter) (1854-1932), Nurse and social reformer; wife of William ('Will') Crooks MP. Sitter associated with 1 portrait. Identify
- William ('Will') Crooks (1852-1921), Trade unionist, member of the Fabian Society and Labour politician; MP for Woolwich. Sitter associated with 13 portraits. Identify
- Charles Duncan (1865-1933), Labour politician; MP for Barrow-in-Furness and Clay Cross Division of Derbyshire. Sitter associated with 2 portraits. Identify
- Arthur Henderson (1863-1935), Politician, leader of the Labour Party, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and iron moulder. Sitter associated with 15 portraits. Identify
- John Hodge (1855-1937), Labour politician, first Minister of Labour and Founder and President of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. Sitter associated with 6 portraits. Identify
- Frederick William Jowett (1864-1944), Socialist and politician. Sitter associated with 8 portraits. Identify
- (James) Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 72 portraits. Identify
- George Henry Roberts (1869-1928), Labour Politician; Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. Sitter associated with 6 portraits. Identify
- George James Wardle (1865-1947), Politician and editor of 'Railway Review'. Sitter associated with 10 portraits. Identify
This portraitback to top
The group is pictured on the House of Commons Terrace following a goodwill visit to Germany in the Spring. As part of an effort to foster better relations between England and Germany and to dispel mounting anti-German sentiment, members were given a tour of the Rhineland and were honoured with a lunch at the Reichstag hosted by the Imperial Chancellor.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Rolley, Katrina; Aish, Caroline, Fashion in Photographs 1900-1920, 1992, p. 63
Placesback to top
- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (Terrace, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London)
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Centenaries and Centenarians (5 February 2000 - 11 August 2000)
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1909back to top
Current affairs
The American retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge opens the first British custom-built department store on what was then the 'dead end' of Oxford Street. The revolutionary complex, considered the world's largest at the time, transforms shopping, offering diverse amenities including a post office and a library, and modernises the visual face of retailing through innovative window displays.Art and science
The Frenchman Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to cross the English channel by aeroplane, winning the £1,000 prize offered by the Daily Mail, and greeted by cheering crowds at Dover station. Bleriot's flight also showed that England was, as H.G. Wells put it, from a military point of view 'no longer an inaccessible island'.In dance, Alexandre Benois becomes the first artistic director of Sergey Diaghilev's innovative Ballets Russes.
International
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is founded in America to campaign for the rights of African Americans. One of the oldest and most influential civil rights movements, it was founded by a diverse group of individuals from mixed backgrounds, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Henry Moscowitz and William English Walling.The Selig Polyscope company sets up the first film studio in Los Angeles.
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