The Sixth Imperial Conference
27 of 73 portraits of Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
The Sixth Imperial Conference
by W. & D. Downey
bromide print, 1911
6 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in. (165 mm x 215 mm) overall
Given by Terence Pepper, 2011
Photographs Collection
NPG x134960
Artistback to top
- W. & D. Downey (active 1855-1940), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 938 portraits.
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- Louis Botha (1862-1919), General and South African statesman. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- Andrew Fisher (1862-1928), Prime Minister of Australia. Sitter in 1 portrait. Identify
- Sir (Henri Charles) Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919), Prime Minister of Canada. Sitter in 5 portraits. Identify
- Edward Patrick Morris, 1st Baron Morris (1859-1935), Premier of Newfoundland. Sitter in 9 portraits. Identify
- Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928), Prime Minister. Sitter in 73 portraits. Identify
- Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Bt (1856-1930), Prime Minister of New Zealand and entrepreneur. Sitter in 19 portraits. Identify
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Current affairs
Asquith's Liberal government introduces the Parliament Act to curb the powers of the House of Lords following the clash between the Commons and Lords over the 1909 People's Budget. The Act removed the Lords' power to veto bills, reduced the length of Parliament from seven to five years, and provided for the payment of MPs.Art and science
Ernest Rutherford discovers the structure of the atom. The New Zealand born physicist working in Manchester showed with his Nuclear Model that electrons orbited a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons. The discovery paved the way for nuclear physics.International
The Polish Chemist, Marie Curie, becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for her discovery in 1898 of the radioactive element, Radon.The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre. The masterpiece was missing for two years, during which time suspicion fell on avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire and his friend Pablo Picasso, before Vincenzo Peruggia, an employee of the Louvre, was arrested in Florence.
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