Former Royal Navy officer, Captain Robert Ryder VC around the time he stood as the Conservative Party candidate for Merton and Morden at the 1950...
British art critic, artist and philosopher John Ruskin , in profile, looking to the right of the image, in cabinet card portrait by Elliott & Fry,...
British colonial administrator Sir Henry Bartle Frere , circa 1875. He was Commissioner in Sindh from 1851 to 1859, Governor of Bombay from 1862 to...
Sandie Lindsay, Baron Lindsay of Birker , British academic and philosopher, United Kingdom, 21 September 1940. Lindsay, Master of Balliol College,...
British Conservative Party politician, journalist and newly-appointed Secretary of State for India and Burma, Leo Amery , May 1940.
English economist, writer and lecturer John A. Hobson , circa 1910. Hobson wrote controversially on the nature of the links between capitalism and...
British Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope , Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet during World War II,...
South African lawyer, politician, and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony during the Boer War, William Philip Schreiner , circa 1895.
Prince George, the Duke of Kent , the fourth son of King George V, circa 1935. He died when his plane crashed in Scotland during World War II.
Sir Ronald Forbes Adam , Adjutant General to the British Armed Forces during World War II, October 1942.
Archibald Vivian Hill , winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on muscle heat, circa 1940.
Sir Percy Zachariah Cox , a British soldier and diplomat who was instrumental in the formation of an independent Iraq after World War I. Circa 1905.
Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, whose policy of peaceful demonstration led India from...