/ Portrait - NPG x100417; Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey
16 of 17 portraits of Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey
by Elliott & Fry
quarter-plate glass negative, 16 January 1952
Given by Bassano & Vandyk Studios, 1974
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey (1917-2015), Labour politician; Secretary of State for Defence and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sitter in 17 portraits.
Elliott & Fry (active 1863-1962), Photographers. Artist associated with 10986 portraits.
King George VI is found dead in his bed in Sandringham; he had been suffering from lung cancer. His daughter Elizabeth, who was in Kenya at the time, became Queen, the only monarch not to know the precise moment of her accession as her father was alone when he died. Elizabeth was crowned the following year.
Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot is performed for the first time in Paris. The play belongs to the Theatre of the Absurd style, which influenced playwrights such as Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard.
Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opens in London. It is still going.
Mau Mau rebels in Kenya rise up against the British colonial administration. The rebellion was sparked by the growing poverty of the native farmers under the rule of white settlers and called for Kenyan independence. The violence of the rebels, who often murdered settlers and loyalists, was met by the indiscriminate suppression by the British Military, who executed hundreds of suspects.
Indian Nobility in Britain
Until 15 December
Athletes and Olympians
Walter Benington: Pictorial portraits
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Photographic holdings - print and negative collections
Photographic holdings - Albums 163-228
Margot Asquith: A Modern Woman
Women Poets and Photography, 1860–1970