Michael Pitt-Rivers; Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu; Peter Wildeblood
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Michael Pitt-Rivers; Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu; Peter Wildeblood
by Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide print, 24 March 1954
5 1/2 in. x 7 5/8 in. (140 mm x 194 mm) image size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2012
Photographs Collection
NPG x136608
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- Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1926-2015), Motor car collector, historian and landowner. Sitter in 35 portraits. Identify
- Michael Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1917-1999), Landowner. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Peter Wildeblood (1923-1999), Journalist and campaigner for homosexual law reform. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
Artistback to top
- Keystone Press Agency Ltd, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 189 portraits.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Tinker, Christopher, Speak its Name! - Quotations by and about Gay Men and Women, 2016, p. 9
Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1954back to top
Current affairs
Roger Bannister runs the four-minute mile. Bannister was the first man to achieve the 'miracle mile', a feat that was thought by some to be impossible, beating his rival, the Australian John Landy, to the record. Bannister went on to a career as a distinguished neurologist.Food rationing ends in Britain.
Art and science
J.R.R. Tolkien publishes the first two parts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. Tolkien was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language and literature and drew on his scholarly interests in history, language and mythology to create the fictional land of Middle Earth where the books are set.Williams Golding publishes, Lord of the Flies.
International
The South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) is established in Bangkok. This international defence organisation was established as part of the 'containment' policy of limiting the influence of communism. SEATO was, however, found to be ineffective as the member organisations failed to agree on combined action; it was disbanded in 1977.Tell us more back to top
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