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Michael Balcon; (April) Aileen Freda Balcon (née Leatherman), Lady Balcon; Tamasin Day-Lewis

4 of 4 portraits of (April) Aileen Freda Balcon (née Leatherman), Lady Balcon

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by Chris Ware, for Keystone Press Agency Ltd
bromide press print, 1974
8 in. x 9 7/8 in. (204 mm x 252 mm) image size
Transferred from Evening Standard Library, 1983
Photographs Collection
NPG x184226

Sittersback to top

(April) Aileen Freda Balcon (née Leatherman), Lady Balcon (1904-1988), Wife of Michael Balcon; mother of Jill Balcon; daughter of H. Leatherman. Sitter in 4 portraits. Identify
Sir Michael Elias Balcon (1896-1977), Film producer. Sitter in 34 portraits. Identify
Tamasin Day-Lewis (1953-), Chef and cookery writer; daughter of Cecil Day-Lewis. Sitter in 3 portraits. Identify

Artistsback to top

Keystone Press Agency Ltd, Photographers. Artist associated with 188 portraits.
Chris Ware, Photographer. Artist associated with 13 portraits.

Placesback to top

Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Sussex (sitter's home, Sussex)

Subjects & Themesback to top

Events of 1974back to top

Current affairs

28 people are killed and hundreds injured in the IRA pub bombings. Two pubs in Guilford popular with army personnel were attacked with gelignite bombs, followed by a pub in Woolwich and then two in Birmingham. 17 people, known as the Guilford Four, the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six, were arrested for the bombing but all were eventually found to have been wrongfully imprisoned.

Art and science

John Le Carré publishes his classic spy thriller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The novel was later made into a BBC miniseries starring Alec Guinness.

International

A one party communist state is established in Ethiopia after a committee of military officers known as the Derg depose Halie Selassie from power.
Greek Cypriot officers depose President Archbishop Makarios III in a coup d'etat sponsored by the Greek Government. Taking advantage of the situation, Turkey sent troops to occupy half the island, proclaiming the Turkish Federal State of Cyprus the following year.

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