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HM Queen Elizabeth II (1926- ) Reigned 1952-
David Bailey (1938 - )
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Backwater (broken glass, cistern bloo, milk, sandwich bags, necklace, clingfilm, bedroom floor sweepings, hair gel, bingo chips, sellotape, noodles)
Samara Scott (1985 - )
Edgar Vincent, Viscount d’Abernon (1857-1941) financier and diplomat
Augustus John (1878 - 1961)
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Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff (1912-2005)
British 20th century unknown
Sir John Eldon Gorst (1861-1911) Consul-General, Egypt 1907-11
Cecil Jameson (1883 - 1973)
John Scott Maclay, Viscount Muirshiel (1905-1992) Secretary of State for Scotland 1957-62
Sir Herbert James Gunn (1893 - 1964)
Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray (1856-1927)
Alfred Edmund Dyer
John Singer, (After) Sargent
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton (1894-1986) Chancellor of the Exchequer; Prime Minister: “When I hear the word culture I reach for my Gunn”
Victor ("Vicky") Weisz (1913 - 1966)
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx (1916-1995) Prime Minister
Ruskin Spear (1911 - 1990)
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Sir George Russell Clerk (1874-1951) diplomat [identity uncertain]
Albert Smith
Monsieur Decori (Secretary to President Poincaré)
Herbert Arnould Olivier (1861 - 1952)
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1815-1891) Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73, 1878-91
Sir William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens (1862 - 1943)
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James Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937)
Foulsham and Banfield
Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden (1864-1937) politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer
Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl (1884 - 1975)
Sir Hervey Angus de Montmorency, 16th Baronet (1888-1959) Secretary of the University Grants Committee
Miles Fletcher de Montmorency (1893 - 1963)
Sir Francis Mowatt (1837-1919) civil servant; Permanent Secretary of the Treasury 1894-1903
Charles Wellington Furse (1868 - 1904)
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917) British Agent & Consul-General in Egypt
John Singer, (After) Sargent
Samuel Melton Fisher (1860 - 1939)
Sir Frederick Francis Liddell (1865-1950) First Parliamentary Counsel and Counsel to the Speaker
Richard Evelyn Fuller Maitland (1885 - 1953)
Sir John Major (b1943)
Sarah King (1954 - )
Seated Figure
Michael Buhler (1940 - 2009)
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The Rt. Hon. George Younger MP (1931-2003), later Baron Younger of Prestwick, Secretary of State for Scotland 1979-86, 1987
Jane Robson
Captain Henry Jackson, OBE, Merchant Navy
Bernard Hailstone (1910 - 1987)
Sir Mark John Mactaggart Stewart (1834-1923) MP
Sir George Reid (1841 - 1913)
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Arthur Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
Jayes
Sir Henry Church Maxwell Lyte (1848-1940) archivist and historian; Keeper of Public Records
Samuel Melton Fisher (1860 - 1939)
Heavensfield
Tony Peart (1961 - )
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (1815-1891) Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73, 1878-91
Hamilton Plantagenet MacCarthy (1846 - 1939)
Gravy for the Navy II
Peter Phillips (1939 - )
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976) Field Marshal
Dwight D Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
2nd Engineer Officer Gordon Love Bastian, MBE, AM, Merchant Navy
Bernard Hailstone (1910 - 1987)
Captain Augustus Banning DSO (born c.1894), Merchant Navy Officer
Bernard Hailstone (1910 - 1987)
Sir Samuel Butler Provis (1845-1927) Permanent Secretary, Local Government Board 1900-1910
John Collier (1850 - 1934)
Radio Officer James Gordon Melville Turner, GC (b. 1907)
Bernard Hailstone (1910 - 1987)
High Treason, Court of Criminal Appeal: the Trial of Sir Roger Casement 1916
Sir John Lavery (1856 - 1941)
Bullfighter
Elizabeth Blackadder (1931 - 25/08/2021)
Sir George Russell Clerk (1874-1951) diplomat [identity uncertain]
H P Routledge
Unknown Seated Man with Bald Head and Moustache
British 20th century unknown
Henry de Worms, 1st Baron Pirbright (1840-1903) politician and historian
(Alexander von) Sándor Liezen-Mayer (1839 - 1898)
William Adamson (1863-1936) politican and trade-unionist; Secretary of State for Scotland 1929-31
Tom Curr (1887 - 1958)
William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock (1911-1988) politician; Secretary of State for Scotland 1964-70, 1974-76
Kathryn Kynoch
Philip Snowden, Viscount Snowden (1864-1937) politician; Chancellor of the Exchequer
Elliott and Fry
King Edward VIII (1894-1972) reigned 1936; Duke of Windsor
George Boucas (1879 - 1941)
Departures
Peter McDonald (1973 - )
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