John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover

1 portrait of John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover

© Denis Waugh / National Portrait Gallery, London

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John Davan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Preston Candover

by Denis Waugh
chromogenic print, 1984
11 in. x 15 1/2 in.; (304 mm x 394 mm)
Given by Denis Waugh, 1986
Photographs Collection
NPG x32372

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  • Denis Waugh (1942-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 25 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.

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  • Rogers, Malcolm, Camera Portraits, 1989 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 20 October 1989 - 21 January 1990), p. 301 Read entry

    Lord Sainsbury, eldest son of Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane, has been chairman of the family firm of J. Sainsbury PLC (whose supermarkets occupy a commanding position in British retail trading) since 1969. He married the ballerina Anya Linden in 1963, and together they have been notable supporters of the arts in Britain. Lord Sainsbury is chairman of the Royal Opera House, London, with which he has long been associated, and has served as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, the Westminster Abbey Trust, and the National Gallery, to which, with his brothers Simon and Timothy, he has donated a new wing, designed by the American architect Robert Venturi.

    Denis Waugh came to London from New Zealand in 1967 to take up a job as art director and photographer, but in 1968 he was chosen as one of the first two students on the Royal College of Art’s new course in still photography. Since leaving the College he has travelled, taught at several London colleges, and undertaken an increasing number of commissions. He photographed Lord Sainsbury for Fortune magazine at Stamford House, the headquarters of Sainsbury’s, with (left) Bridget Riley’s painting Persephone (1969) and (right) Brendan Neiland’s Building Projection (1977). Both these works were later given by Lord and Lady Sainsbury’s Linbury Trust to the Contemporary Art Society, and are now in the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool.

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Current affairs

The Provisional IRA bomb the Grand Hotel in Brighton where various politicians, including the Prime Minister, where staying for the annual Conservative Party conference. The bomb killed five people including a conservative MP, but no members of the cabinet. Thatcher began the next session of the conference the following morning at 9.30 as planned saying: 'all attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail.'

Art and science

Dr Alec Jeffreys discovers that patterns in an individual's DNA can be identified and that each person has a unique 'genetic fingerprint'. The technique was soon utilised by forensic scientists to help in criminal investigations, and in order to identify human remains, for paternity testing, and to match organ donors.
Ted Hughes is appointed poet Laureate.

International

Ethiopia suffers severe drought and famine. The Ethiopian government responded by uprooting large numbers of peasants in the worst affected areas and by setting up new villages for the displaced people. However, the planned villages were frequently poorly equipped and many people chose to flee rather than acquiesce with government plans leading to further decline in food production and bringing the total death toll to over 1 million.

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