Patrick Lichfield
© John Hedgecoe; Camera Press
Patrick Lichfield
by John Hedgecoe, for Camera Press: London: UK
bromide press print, 1969
8 1/8 in. x 6 in. (205 mm x 153 mm) image size
Transferred from Evening Standard Library, before 1983
Photographs Collection
NPG x184015
Sitterback to top
- Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield (1939-2005), Photographer. Sitter in 30 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 60 portraits.
Artistsback to top
- Camera Press: London: UK, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 102 portraits.
- John Hedgecoe (1932-2010), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 23 portraits.
Events of 1969back to top
Current affairs
The Open University is established, based on the vision of Michael Young. Its aims were to offer the chance to study for higher education qualifications on a part time and distance learning basis, giving people who were unable to attend a traditional university because of family, work commitments or disability the opportunity to achieve university degrees.Art and science
The comedy sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus is first broadcast. The Pythons performed surreal sketches that reinvented the comedy tradition, eschewing punch lines for a stream-of-consciousness structure and incongruous authorial interventions: 'and now for something completely different'.Kenneth Tynan's Oh! Calcutta amuses and shocks audiences with full nudity on stage, taking advantage of the recent end to censorship laws.
International
Neil Armstrong takes 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' when he becomes the first man on the moon.Concorde makes its first supersonic flight. The plane was designed, developed and manufactured by a joint treaty between the French and English governments.
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