Zandra Rhodes
Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, DBE, RDI, born 1940, is an English fashion and textile designer. In 1965 Rhodes won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for career in the industry creating textile prints and she was one of the new wave of British designers who put London at the forefront of the international fashion scene in the 1970s. Rhodes designed garments for Diana Princess of Wales and numerous celebrities.
Calvin Klein
Calvin Richard Klein born to a Jewish family in the Bronx in 1942, is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, he also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewellery.
Photographed in a large cupboard, into which both of us squeezed, due to being hassled by his sycophantic girl assistants allowing us no privacy.
Beryl Cooke
Beryl Cook, OBE, 1926 – 2008 was a British artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying themselves in pubs, girls shopping or out on a hen night, drag queen shows or a family picnicking by the seaside or abroad. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until her thirties. She was a shy and private person, and in her art often depicted the flamboyant and extrovert characters she would have liked to have been.
In NPG Photography Collection.
Photographed in her studio at home in Plymouth.
Hugh Johnson
Hugh Johnson is an English journalist, author, editor, and expert on wine. He is considered the world's best-selling wine writer. He is also a keen gardener, who has written books and columns on gardening for many years
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Enoch Powell
John Enoch Powell MBE 1912 – 1998 was a British politician, classical scholar, author, linguist, soldier, philologist, and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament, then Ulster Unionist Party, and was Minister of Health 1960–1963. He is best known for his “Rivers of blood” speech in 1968.
Prince Harry
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, KCVO ADC, Henry Charles Albert David. Born in 1984 he is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales and is sixth in the line of succession to the British throne.
Prince & Princess of Wales
Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George); born 1948, is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II. Diana, Princess of Wales, born Diana Frances Spencer; 1961 – 1997 was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Diana's activism and glamour made her an international icon.
A private commission, photographed at Sutton Place in the late evening.
Gareth-Edwards
Sir Gareth Owen Edwards CBE is a Welsh former rugby union player who played scrum-half and has been described by many as "arguably the greatest player ever to don a Welsh jersey".
Jonny Wilkinson
Jonathan Peter Wilkinson, CBE born 1979 is an English former rugby union player. A fly-half, he played for Newcastle Falcons and Toulon and represented England and the British and Irish Lions. He is particularly known for scoring the winning drop goal in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final and is widely acknowledged as one of the best rugby union players of all time.
JPR Williams
John Peter Rhys Williams MBE FRCSis a former Welsh rugby union player who represented Wales in international rugby during their Golden Era in the 1970s. He became known universally as JPR after 1973 when JJ Williams joined the Welsh team.Playing in the position of full back he was noted for his aggressive attacking style. With his long sideboards and socks around his ankles, "JPR" was an iconic figure on the legendary 1970s Wales team.
Lord David Owen
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, CH, PC, FRCP born 1938 is a British politician and physician. Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, at the age of 38 the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers, architect, in 1984 at the Royal Academy showing his South Bank scheme
Jenny Agutter
Jennifer Ann Agutter OBE born 1952 is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress in 1964, appearing in East of Sudan, Star!, and The Railway Children. She also starred in the critically acclaimed film Walkabout and the TV film The Snow Goose (both 1971), for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama.
Sir Iain Moncreiffe
Sir Rupert Iain Kay Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 11th Baronet, CVO, QC, 1919-1985, Chief of Clan Moncreiffe, was a British Officer of Arms and genealogist.
Bill Brandt
Bill Brandtt, 1904 – 1983 was a British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazine as Lilliput and Picture Post, later he made distorted nudes with a plate camera, portraits of famous artists and landscapes. He is widely considered to be one of the most important masters of 20th century photography. I was a pupil of his from 1972 - 1974.
Clive Robertson & "The Somerset Racer"
Clive Robertson, friend, lawyer, expert on classic car pedigree, also known as "The Somerset Racer" in his D Type Jaguar
Ian McEwan
Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL (born 21 June 1948) is a renowned English novelist and screenwriter. His first two novels, The Cement Garden and The Comfort of Strangers, earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre".
Anthony Horowitz
Peter Langan
Peter Langan 1941 - 1988, an Irish entrepreneur opened Langan’s Brasserie in 1976 in partnership with the actor Michael Caine, which quickly attracted celebrities and became hugely successful. Langan's Brasserie remains one of the most popular restaurants in London today. A notorious alcoholic, Peter Langan died after a fire at his home in Essex which he is alleged to have started himself.
In NPG Photography Collection.
John 'Jock' Murray
Nancy Wake, AC GM
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM was a secret agent during the Second World War and was one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen. Wake joined the Special Operations Executive. She parachuted into occupied France near Auvergne, becoming a liaison between London and the local maquis group headed by Captain Henri Tardivat in the Forest of Tronçais. From April 1944 until the liberation of France, her 7,000+ maquisards fought the Germans in many different ways. At one point, being aware of this large group of Maquis, the Germans sent in 22,000 soldiers to wipe them out. However, due to Wake's extraordinary organizing abilities, her Maquisards were able to defeat them causing 1,400 German casualties, while suffering only 100 among themselves
Richard Ingrams
Richard Reid Ingrams born 1937 is an English journalist, a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and founding editor of The Oldie magazine.
Photographed at Private Eye offices during the Jeremy Thorpe trial.
Ian Hislop
Baron Philippe de Rothschild
Philippe, Baron de Rothschild, 1902 – 1988 was a member of the Rothschild banking dynasty who became a Grand Prix race-car driver, a screenwriter and playwright, a theatrical producer, a film producer, a poet, and at Château Mouton Rothschild became one of the most successful wine growers in the world.
Sir Angus Wilson
Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson CBE, 1913 - 1991 was an English novelist and short story writer. He was one of England's first openly gay authors. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.
In NPG Photography Collection.
Jill
Sir Clive Sinclair
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair, born 1940 is an English entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s.His ZX Sectrum is widely recognised by consumers and programmers for its importance in the early days of the British home computer industry.
Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman 1945 – 2019 was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles. She was a commanding presence on operatic, concert and recital stages, and The New York Times music critic Edward Rothstein described her voice as a "grand mansion of sound", and wrote that "it has enormous dimensions, reaching backward and upward”.
Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst, born 1965, is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists, who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist.
John Hoyland
Ellis Peters
Edith Mary Pargeter OBE BEM 1913 – 1995, also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction. She is best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern, and especially for her medieval detective series The Cadfael Chronicles.
In NPG Photography Collection.
HELEN,SCOTLAND & THE V&A.
HELEN,SCOTLAND & V&A, in the Victoria & Albert Museum Photography Collection
Helen
Charles Wyvill
Charles Marmaduke Astey Wyvill in front of his Palladian mansion, Constable Burton Hall. Charles made the house famous as a destination for shooting parties for international clients which continues under his son Marmaduke Darcy Wyvill who now runs the estate.
Alice
My youngest daughter asleep on a sunny afternoon.
Charles Jencks
Charles Alexander Jencks 1939 – 2019 was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as theorist of Postmodernism. Jencks devoted time to landform architecture, especially in Scotland.
In NPG Photography Collection.
Auberon Waugh
Auberon Alexander Waugh, 1939 – 2001 was an English journalist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname "Bron".
Michael Heseltine
Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC born 1933 is a British politician and businessman.
Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, CH, MBE, PC, FRSL 1917 – 2015, was a British Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983.
Photographed at the House of Commons, after a good lunch, where he amused himself by flicking elastic bands at my pretty assistants bottom..!
Marcia Matilda Falkender, Baroness Falkender, CBE
Marcia Matilda Falkender; Baroness Falkender; CBE was a British Labour politician; known first as the private secretary for; and then the political secretary and head of political office to; Harold Wilson.
Lord-Lady-Wilson-with-Lady-Falkender.1588
Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS was a British statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He was married to Gladys Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, an English poet.
William Mann
William Somervell Mann 1924 – 1989 was an English music critic. Born in India, he was educated at Winchester and Cambridge, studying music with several prominent composers, before taking up a career as a critic. For most of his career he was on the staff of The Times in London, where his radical views were in contrast with the paper's traditional outlook. Mann achieved some notoriety for his assertion that the Beatles were "the greatest songwriters since Schubert".
Polly Devlin OBE
Polly Devlin OBE born 1944 is a writer and Irish broadcaster. She wrote a column for the New Statesman and she had her own page in the Evening Standard . She moved to Manhattan in 1967 becoming a features editor and writer for Diana Vreeland on American Vogue. She reviewed theatre and film and interviewed Barbra Streisand, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, John Osborne, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol among many others. When she moved back to England, she attended the National Film School for four years and directed a one-hour documentary The Daisy Chain. She also writes for The Observer, The Sunday Times, Vogue, and many other newspapers and magazines
Vangelis
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, born 1943 known professionally as Vangelis, is a Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He won Oscars for Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner and Alexander.
Photographed at his own recording studio while working on the soundtrack for Chariots.
Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia Dench CH DBE FRSA born 1934 is an English actress, artist, and author, appearing in numerous films. Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her forte throughout her career. Photographed at her favourite restaurant, Greens.
My parents
My parents in a field..!
Belarussian submariner
Belarussian submariner whose daughter was affected by Chernobyl.
Prue Leith
Prudence Margaret Leith, CBE, born 1940, is a British-South African restaurateur, chef, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer and novelist.
Photographed at her cookery school.
Michael Huddert with backache
Michael Huddert a friend with backache on White Sheet Hill
Pauline Huddert
Pauline Huddert, a (mad) friend
Ronnie Corbett
Ronald Balfour Corbett CBE 1930 – 2016 was a Scottish stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and broadcaster. He had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies.
Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott OBE 1927 – 1996 was an English jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner. He co-founded Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, one of the UK's most popular jazz clubs, in 1959, which continues today.
Roy Plomley
Francis Roy Plomley, OBE 1914 – 1985 was an English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist. In 1941, he devised the renowned BBC Radio series Desert Island Discs.
Sir Freddie Gibberd
Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd RA 1908 – 1984 was an English architect, town planner and landscape designer. He was consultant architect planner for the Harlow development and spent the rest of his life living in the town he had designed. The garden of his personal home at Marsh Lane, on the outskirts of Harlow, a mixture of formal and informal design, contains architectural elements salvaged from his reconstruction of Coutts Bank in London.
Sir Hugh Casson
Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson CH KCVO PRA RDI, 1910-1999 was a British architect, interior designer, artist, and writer and broadcaster on 20th-century design. He was the director of architecture at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank. His projects included the Elephant House at London Zoo, a building for the Royal College of Art, where Casson was Professor of Interior Design from 1955 to 1975, the interior of the royal yacht Britannia and the master planning and design of the Sidgwick Avenue arts faculty buildings for the University of Cambridge.
Sir James Stirling
Sir James Stirling RA, 1926-1992, was a British architect who is considered by many as the premier architect of his generation and an innovator in postwar architecture. Some of his most famous projects include the Sackler Museum, No 1 Poultry, and the Neue Staatsgalerie
CHARLES MELVILLE MCLAREN, 3RD BARON ABERCONWAY IN BODNANT GARDENS
Lord Aberconway. Bodnant Gardens
Lord Lovat, Simon Fraser 15th Lord Lovat.
Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, by Beaufort Castle, was the 25th Chief of the Clan Fraser of Lovat and a prominent British Commando during the Second World War.
Tom Conti
Thomas Antonio Conti, BORN 1941, is a Scottish actor, theatre director, and novelist. He won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1979 for his performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway? and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1983 film Reuben, Reuben. He has made more than 40 films notably as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence; Reuben, Reuben; American Dreamer; Shirley Valentine; Miracles; Saving Grace; Dangerous Parking, Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase.
Lady Diana Cooper
Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Cooper, Viscountess Norwich née Lady Diana Manners; 1892 – 1986) was a famously glamorous social figure in London and Paris. As a young woman, she moved in a celebrated group of intellectuals known as the Coterie, most of whom were killed in the First World War. She married one of the few survivors, Duff Cooper, later British Ambassador to France.
Terry Waite
Terence Hardy Waite CBE born 1939 is an English humanitarian and author. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991.
Lady Penelope Chetwode
Penelope Valentine Hester Chetwode, Lady Betjeman 1910 – 1986 was an English travel writer. She was the only daughter of Field Marshal Lord Chetwode, and the wife of poet laureate Sir John Betjeman. She was born and grew up in northern India, returning to the region in later life. She is best known for Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia, her account of travelling through southern Spain on horseback in the summer of 1961. The book has been widely praised. She died in Mutisher, India in 1986, leading a group of tourists on a trek through the Himalayas.
Lois Maxwell
Lois Ruth Maxwell (born Hooker; 1927 – 2007 was a Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Miss Moneypenny in all the first fourteen Eon-produced James Bond films from 1962 to 1985.
Lord Aberconway
Charles Melville McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, 1913 – 2003 was a British industrialist and horticulturalist. He was the son of Henry McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway, and Christabel Macnaghten. He took part in the secret, unofficial meeting of British businessmen with Hermann Göring arranged in August 1939 as a last-ditch effort to forestall war.
Norman Foster
Lord Esher
Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett, 4th Viscount Esher, 4th Baron Esher CBE, 1913 - 2004, was a British peer, architect and Rector of the Royal College of Art. He succeeded to his title on the death of his father in 1963
Sir Rocco Forte
Charles Carmine Forte, Baron Forte. 1908-2007 was a Scottish-Italian caterer and hotelier of Italian origin who founded the leisure and hotels conglomerate that ultimately became the Forte Group, with his son Sir Rocco Giovanni Forte, FCA, FIoD an English hotelier and the chairman of Rocco Forte Hotels.
Frederick Forsythe
Lord George Howard
George Anthony Geoffrey Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe, JP (22 May 1920 – 27 November 1984) was a British politician, soldier and media man. Howard owned Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, which was televised in "Brideshead Revisited" in 1981.
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 1900 – 1979, was a British Royal Navy officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II. During the Second World War, he was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command. He was the last Viceroy of India and the first governor-general of independent India.
Lord Charles Settrington, Earl of March, Duke of Richmond.
Charles March is a photographer and owner of Goodwood Estate in West Sussex where he founded the Goodwood Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival
Lord Weidenfeld
George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, GBE 1919 – 2016 was a brilliant and gregarious publisher who arrived in Britain as a refugee from nazism and co-founded his own firm with Nigel Nicolson in the late 1940s. He was also a lifelong Zionist and renowned as a master networker. He was on good terms with popes, prime ministers and presidents and put his connections to good use for diplomatic and philanthropic ends. He died in London on 20 January 2016, aged 96 and was honoured with burial on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
Loyd Grossman
Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman CBE born 1950 is an American-British author, broadcaster and cultural campaigner who has mainly worked in the United Kingdom. He is well known for presenting the BBC programme MasterChef from 1990 to 2000 and for being the co-presenter, with Sir David Frost, of the BBC & ITV show Through the Keyhole. Grossman has an erstwhile career as a guitarist initially with punk band Jet Bronx And The Forbidden, who reached number 49 in the UK singles chart in December 1977 with "Ain't Doin' Nothing". In 1995, Grossman introduced his own brand of cooking sauces which became the most successful UK celebrity sauce brand.
Loyd Grossman
Loyd Grossman
Angus McBean
Angus McBean, photographer, set designer and surrealist.
In NPG Photography Collection.
Bert Hardy
Bert Hardy Chief photographer for Picture Post, he took part in the D-Day landings, photographing the liberation of Paris, the allied advance across the Rhine and was one of the first photographers to enter the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to record the suffering.
Sir Bernard Lovell
Mark Birley
Marcus Oswald Hornby Lecky Birley 1930 – 2007, known as Mark Birley, was a British entrepreneur who founded Annabel's at Berkeley Square in the Mayfair district in central London. The club was named for his wife, the former Lady Annabel Vane-Tempest-Stewart, and it was the first of its kind: a member-only nightclub that catered to an exclusive clientele, including the Prince of Wales.
Nicola Bayley
Nicola Bayley MA(RCA) was born in Singapore and earned a degree in illustration at the Royal College of Art. At her degree show, she caught the eye of the publisher Tom Maschler, who commissioned her to illustrate a book of nursery rhymes. She has since illustrated dozens of children's picture books and perhaps best known for her loving, detailed illustrations of cats.
Nigel Dempster
Nigel Richard Patton Dempster 1941 - 2007 was a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist. Best known for his celebrity gossip columns in newspapers, his work appeared in the Daily Express and Daily Mail and also in Private Eye magazine.
Richard Compton-Miller
Richard Compton-Miller - Gossip Columinst for the Daily Express newspaper and editor of the William Hickey column.
Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith 1921 - 1995 was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley. Her novels have been made into numerous films. She famously preferred the company of animals to that of people and stated in an interview, "I choose to live alone because my imagination functions better when I don't have to speak with people."
Peter Donohoe
Peter Donohoe CBE born 1953 is an English classical pianist. Since appearing on the professional stage, he has performed all over the world in solo recitals and chamber music, and in particular as solo artist with many of the world's leading symphony orchestras.
Raymond Loewy
Raymond Loewy 1893 - 1986 was a French-born American industrial designer who achieved fame for the magnitude of his designs across a variety of industries and disciplines Among his designs were the Shell, Exxon, TWA and the former BP logos, the Greyhound Scenicruiser bus, Coca-Cola bottle redesign, the Lucky Strike package, Coldspot refrigerators, the Studebaker Avanti, NASA's Skylab space station, and the Air Force One livery.
Richard Booth
Richard George William Pitt Booth MBE 1938 – 2019 was a British bookseller, known for his contribution to the success of Hay-on-Wye as a centre for second-hand bookselling. He was also the self-proclaimed "King of Hay". On 1 April 1977 Booth made a declaration of independence for the town, dubbing himself King Richard Coeur de Livre and parading down the high street, with his horse as his prime minister.
George Melly
Alan George Heywood Melly 1926 – 2007 was a flamboyant English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for The Observer and lectured on art history, with an emphasis on surrealism.
George Rainbird
George Meadus Rainbird 1905 – 1986 was a British publisher, and the founder of the eponymous publishing house, George Rainbird Ltd.
Gertrude Hermes
Gertrude Anna Bertha Hermes OBE RA 1901 – 1983 was an English wood-engraver and sculptor.Her work is in many public collections including the Tate, and the National Portrait Gallery. Her work was also in private collections including a c1926 bronze "Swallow" door knocker in the collection of David Bowie.
Edward Fitzgerald QC
Edward Hamilton Fitzgerald CBE QC is an English barrister who specialises in criminal law, public law, and international human rights law. His work against the death penalty has led him to represent criminals such as: Myra Hindley, a perpetrator in the Moors murders; Mary Bell, a child killer; Maxine Carr; Jon Venables, one of James Bulger's killers; various IRA prisoners; and Abu Hamza, the controversial Muslim cleric.
Jocasta-Innes
Jocasta Claire Traill Innes 1934 – 2013 was a British writer, journalist and businesswoman. Her first book was the bestselling The Pauper's Cookbook. In 1981 she published Paint Magic, which popularized the practices of stenciling, stippling and the pleasures of festoon blinds. It went on to sell over a million copies around the world.
Fotini Kafiri
Fotini Kafiri was a, beautiful, fellow student at RCA
Jack Chalker
Jack Bridger Chalker 1918 – 2014, was a British artist and teacher best known for his work recording the lives of the prisoners of war building the Burma Railway during World War Two.
Sir Hew Strachan
Sir Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE, FRHistS, FBA, born 1949, is a British military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War
Willie Landels
Born in Venice in 1928 to a Scottish father and Italian mother, he attended the Art High School in Brera, Milan in 1946. And as a star graduate of the Brera school of art in Milan, he was commissioned to make a huge mobile for the Festival of Britain in 1951. He became part of the Swinging Sixties in London, that included Princess Margaret, fellow Italians illustrator Enzo Appicella, storeowner Piero De Monzi and shoe designer Manolo Blahnik. From 1951 to 1965 he was Art Director of the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. During the 1970s he re-created the 'glossy magazine' as the inspirational first editor of Harpers & Queen until 1985.
John Armit
John Armit, has played a key role in transforming how the wine industry operates, pioneering the practice of buying directly from producers and building long standing relationships most famously with Chateau Petrus.
Jonathan & Mariah Aitken
Jonathan William Patrick Aitken born 1942 is an Irish-born British former Conservative Member of Parliament, and a former Cabinet minister and is a great-nephew of newspaper magnate and war-time minister Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. He was convicted of perjury in 1999 and received an 18-month prison sentence, of which he served seven months. After becoming a Christian, he later was ordained in the Church of England.His sister Maria Penelope Katharine Aitken born 1945 is an English theatre director, teacher, actress, and writer.
Lord Michael Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk
Michael John James George Robert Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk & 14th Earl of Berkshire, is an English peer. He succeeded his father, Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, in 1941, when the latter was killed by a bomb he was attempting to defuse. The family seat is Charlton Park, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire
Jonathan Meades
Jonathan Turner Meades born 1947 is an English writer and film-maker, primarily on the subjects of place, culture, architecture and food. In 1982, Harpers & Queen published three short stories which Meades had written about "rural lowlife". These, along with four more, were collected in 1984 as Filthy English, his first volume of fiction. Photographed at Langans Brasserie with Filthy English props!
Duke of Argyll
Ian Campbell, 12th and 5th Duke of Argyll DL FRSA 1937 – 2001, was a Scottish Peer and Chief of Clan Campbell. In 1968 he took over running the dukedom's Inveraray Castle estate for his father.
Duchess of Argyll
Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll née Whigham; 1912 – 1993 was a British socialite, best remembered for a celebrated divorce case in 1963 from her second husband, the 11th Duke of Argyll, which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.
In NPG Photography Collection.
Duchess of Argyll
Ethel Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll née Whigham; 1912 – 1993 was a British socialite, best remembered for a celebrated divorce case in 1963 from her second husband, the 11th Duke of Argyll, which featured salacious photographs and scandalous stories.
In NPG Photography Collection.
Duchess of Devonshire
Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO born Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford; 1920 – 2014 was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist and socialite. She was the youngest and last surviving of the six Mitford sisters, who were prominent members of English society in the 1930s and 1940s.
Duke of Westminster
Major General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, KG, CB, CVO, OBE, TD, CD, DL, Bt, was a British landowner, businessman, aristocrat, Territorial Army general, and peer. He was the son of Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and Viola Lyttelton.
Eduardo Paolozzi
Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE RA 1924 – 2005 was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art. He taught sculpture and ceramics at several institutions, including the Royal College of Art. He was one of my tutors at the RCA.
Kit Chapman
Kit Chapman MBE is a well-known personality on the British hotel and restaurant scene as a writer and television presenter. He has been a vigorous campaigner for improving culinary standards in the UK and is the proprietor of the Castle Hotel in Taunton.
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon CBE, FRSL born 1931, is an English author, essayist and playwright. Her most celebrated work is her 1983 novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, which she wrote at the age of 52.
Freddy Heineken
Alfred Henry "Freddy" Heineken (4 November 1923 – 3 January 2002) was the Dutch majority shareholder of Heineken International, the brewing company bought in 1864 by his grandfather. Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer were kidnapped in 1983 and released on a ransom of £15.7 million. The kidnappers were eventually caught and served prison terms. While I photographed him, I was watched carefully by his armed chauffeur.
Gary Karr
Gary Michael Karr , born 1941,is an American classical double bass virtuoso and teacher; he is considered one of the best bassists of the 20th and 21st centuries. I photographed him at the Albert Hall after a soloist concert.
Celia Hammond
Celia Hammond born 1941, is an English former model who has since become known as a campaigner against fur and for neutering of cats to control the feral population.
Charlie Drake
Charles Edward Springall 1925 – 2006), known professionally as Charlie Drake, was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer.With his small stature, curly red hair and liking for slapstick, he was a popular comedian with children in his early years, becoming nationally known for his "Hello, my darlings!" catchphrase.
Dame Janet Baker
Dame Janet Abbott Baker CH DBE FRSA born 1933 is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. Taken at Sutton Place.
Dame Moura Lympany
Dame Moura Lympany, 1916 - 2005, was an English concert pianist.
In NPG Photography Collection.
Daniel Adni
Daniel Adni born 1951 is an Israeli classical pianist. He has toured throughout the world and played with the leading orchestras and conductors.
David Donaldson
David Abercrombie Donaldson, born 1916. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1932–37 and won the Director’s Prize in 1936, and the Haldane Travelling Scholarship in 1937. He was appointed Head of Drawing and Painting at the Glasgow School of Art in 1967. Donaldson was commissioned to paint the Queen in 1966. He was appointed Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland in 1977. Amongst his other notable subjects were Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
David Shilling
David Shilling born 1949 is an English milliner, sculptor, fashion and interior designer synonymous with designing extravagant hats and clothing displayed on Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot.
Dr Michel Odent
Michel Odent born in a French village in 1930, is a French obstetrician and childbirth specialist, educated as a surgeon in the 1950s. In charge of the surgical and maternity units of the Pithiviers hospital from 1962 to 1985, Odent developed a special interest in environmental factors influencing the birth process. He introduced the concepts like birthing rooms, birthing pools and singing sessions for pregnant women.
In NPG Photography Collection.
Beryl Bainbridge
Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE 1932 – 2010 was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as "a national treasure".
Robin Guild
Robin Guild was a design consultant who ran a number of London-based companies and shops. In his twenties he opened Interiors, a design showroom in Hampstead, London and co-founded with his wife Patricia Kaye the Designers Guild interior design company in the early 1970s.
Bevis Hillier
Bevis Hillier born 1940 is an English art historian, author and journalist. He has written on Art Deco, and also a biography of Sir John Betjeman.
Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant, born 1950, is an English film and television actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance and films such as The Handmaid's Tale and Best Seller. She starred in two films with Steve Martin, her future husband: All of Me and L.A. Story.
Billy Currie
William Lee "Billy" Currie born 1950, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England is an English violist, violinist, pianist, keyboardist, and songwriter. He is best known for his work with new wave band Ultravox, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1980s.
Lucy Robertson
Cardinal Basil Hume
George Basil Hum, OSB OM, 1923 – 1999 was an English Roman Catholic bishop. He was a monk and priest of the English Benedictine monastery of Ampleforth Abbey and its abbot for 13 years until his appointment as Archbishop of Westminster in 1976. His elevation to cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church followed during the same year.
Sir Terence Becket
Sir Terence Norman Beckett KBE 1923 – 2013 was a British businessman, who was chairman of Ford and later became director-general of the Confederation of British Industry.
Cedric Price
Cedric Price FRIBA 1934 – 2003 was an English architect and influential teacher and writer on architecture.
Arthur Askey
Arthur Bowden Askey, CBE, 1900 – 1982 was an English comedian and actor. Askey's humour owed much to the playfulness of the characters he portrayed, his improvisation, and his use of catchphrases.
Adam Ant
Adam Ant (born 3 November 1954) is an English singer and musician. He gained popularity as the lead singer of new wave group Adam and the Ants and later as a solo artist, scoring 10 UK top ten hits from 1980 to 1983, including three UK No. 1 singles.
Mary Adshead
Mary Adshead, 1904 - 1995, was educated at The Slade School of Art aged just 16. She went on to become a well know muralist and was commissioned by Lord Beaverbrook to decorate his dining-room with Newmarket racing scenes and portraits of his friends, such as Lady Mountbatten and Winston Churchill.
Candace Bahouth
Candace Bahouth, tapestry weaver and mosaic artist, a New Yorker of Italian- Lebanese descent, studied at Syracuse University. In the 1970’s her famous punk tapestry was added to the Victorian and Albert Museum’s collection and large scale tapestry portraits of Peter Blake, Gilbert and George and David Hockney have followed.In recent years she has moved into mosaics with her hallmark flair and originality. She covers the ceilings of grottos in shells, decorates furniture creating trompe l’oeil illusions with her mosaic designs.
Aled Jones
Aled Jones, MBE (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer and radio and television presenter. As a teenage chorister, he reached widespread fame during the mid-1980s. Since then he has worked in television.
Lord Bath
Lord Bath, 1932-2020. Taken in his "Garden of Love" at Longleat - after a good lunch. Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, 1932 - 2020, styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, was an English politician, artist and author.
Germaine Greer in her bathroom, for some peculiar reason!
Germaine Greer, born 1939, is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the later half of the 20th century. In 1970 she published “The Female Eunuch” which became a bestseller.
Dutch Barge Master, Essex Coast
Dutch Barge Master, Essex Coast salt marshes
6th Marquess of Bristol, Victor Frederick Cochrane Hervey
Victor Frederick Cochrane Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol, 1915 - 1985, was a British aristocrat, hereditary peer and businessman. He was a member of the House of Lords, Chancellor of the International Monarchist League. He acquired a notorious reputation as a playboy and petty criminal in the 1930s, which culminated in him being imprisoned for jewellery theft in 1939.
Sir Michael Hopkins
Sir Michael John Hopkins CBE RA, born 1935, is an English architect. With Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw, Hopkins was one of the leading figures in the introduction of high-tech architecture into Britain
Michael Gough
Francis Michael Gough 1916 - 2011 was an English character actor who made over 150 film and television appearances.
Derek and Misti Bell
Derek Reginald Bell MBE, born 1941, is a British racing driver. In sportscar racing, he won the Le Mans 24 hours five times, the Daytona 24 three times and the World Sportscar Championship twice. He also raced in Formula One for the Ferrari, McLaren and Surtees teams
Mariel Hemingway
Mariel Hadley Hemingway, born 1961, is an American actress and grand daughter of Ernest Hemingway who committed suicide four months before she was born. She began acting at age 14 with a Golden Globe–nominated breakout role in Lipstick, and received Academy and BAFTA Award nominations for her performance in Woody Allen's Manhattan in 1979. She has spent the last few years speaking as a mental health and wellness advocate.
Le Caprice
Le Caprice restaurant 1986 with Chris Corbin & Jeremy King who had restored it in 1981.
Sir John Harvey-Jones
Sir John Harvey-Jones MBE, 1924 - 2008, was an English businessman. He was the chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries from 1982 to 1987. He was best known by the public for his BBC television show, Troubleshooter, in which he advised struggling businesses.
John Hedgecoe
John Hedgecoe 1932 – 2010 was a British photographer and author of over 30 books on photography. He established the photography department in 1965 at the Royal College of Art, where he was Professor from 1975 to 1994. His photographs appear in permanent collections at the New York Museum of Modern Art and London's National Portrait Gallery.
Charles Jencks
Charles Alexander Jencks 1939 – 2019 was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. He published over thirty books and became famous in the 1980s as theorist of Postmodernism. Jencks devoted time to landform architecture, especially in Scotland.
In NPG Photography Collection.
Betty Kenward MBE of "Jennifer's Diary"
Betty Kenward of "Jennifer's Diary" exhaustively and uncritically chronicled the lives of England's upper classes at their dinners, balls, race meetings and country weekends in the pages of "Queen" Magazine
David Short architect
David Short architect as a Hungarian scarecrow
Stacy and Blair on holiday
Stacy and Blair on holiday
Dom Leo Maidlow Davis
Dom Leo Maidlow Davis, Abbot of Downside