Politician Collection (#93)

Armand Jean Duplessis, Duc de Richelieu (1585-1642) French prelate and statesman: Cardinal 1624: Minister of state to Louis XIII and de facto ruler of France from 1629

Lyon Playfair (1818-1898) Scottish chemist and politician, in the chair as Deputy Speaker of the Commons during a late night session

James Stuart (b1843) scientist, journalist, supporter of womens suffrage, radical politician. Member of Parliament for Hoxton. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, 5 October 1899. Chromolithograph

Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot (1827-1907) French organic chemist and politician. Berthelot worked on explosives and dyes

Lyon Playfair (1818-1898) Scoittish chemist and politician

Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) British Liberal statesman. Chamberlain, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, visiting South Africa

Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) British Liberal statesman. Tinted lithograph published c1880

Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong) 1893-1976, Chinese Communist leader. Mao addressing a meeting

(Stephanus Johannes) Paulus Kruger (1825-1904) known as Oom Paul. South African politician. In 2nd Boer War (1899-1900), Kruger was too old and unwell to cope with guerrilla warfare

(Stephanus Johannes) Paulus Kruger (1825-1904) known as Oom Paul. South African politician. In 2nd Boer War (1899-1900), Kruger was too old and unwell to cope with guerrilla warfare

Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) British social reformer, the sailors friend. Merchant Shipping Act 1876 and Plimsoll Mark. Member of Parliament 1868-1880. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, March 1873

(James) Kier Hardie (1865-1915) Scottish-born Labour politician. A founder of the Labour Party. Cartoon from The Strand Magazine, London, 1903

Sergey Yulyevich Witte (1849-1915). First constitutional prime minister of tsarist Russia (1905-1906). Peace plenipotentiary after Russo-Japanese War (1905). Russian modernisation

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd president of the USA. Engraving after portrait by Desnoyers

Austen Henry Layard (1817-94) English archaeologist, politician and diplomat. Excavated Nimrud/Ninevah near Mosul, Iraq, in 1845-7 and 1849-51. Photograph published c1880. Woodburytype

Christian De Wet (1854-1922) Boer soldier and politician c1900

Edward Carson (1854-1935) Irish-born British politician and jurist. Opposed Home Rule for Ireland. Leader of Irish Unionists. Cartoon from Punch London 9 July 1898

John Morley (1838-1923) British Secretary for Ireland, holding the hand of the Evicted Tenant Bill he has shepherded through House of Commons

Lord Randolph Churchill (left) trying to make Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician, show his hand and let Churchill and Hartington know how he will use Parnellite votes he commands in House of

Repeal Meeting at Tara - 1843. Daniel O Connell (1775-1841) Irish politician, The Liberator, leader of Repeal (of union with Britain) movement, shown as King of the Irish

Mr Punch tells John Bull to ignore Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891), Irish politician, as he is sure to come a cropper riding the Irish horse

Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828) British statesman. Prime Minister from 1812 for nearly 15 years. Engraving

Robert Peel (1788-1850) British statesman. Engraving

Robert Peel (1788-1850) British statesman, arriving at House of Commons, January, 1846, being saluted by a member of the London police force which he reformed

Extraordinary Mildness of the Political Season : Disraeli congratulating Gladstone on Sovereigns speech at Opening of Parliament

William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) British statesman. Became Prime Minister at age of 24 the youngest to hold the position in England. Engraving after Hoppner

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-81) British Conservative statesman. Photograph by Jabez Hughes, 22 July, 1878 by command of Queen Victoria

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-81) British Conservative statesman. Tinted lithograph published London c1880

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) British Conservative statesman. Photograph published London c1880. Woodburytype

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) British Liberal statesman. Engraving published c1870

Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928) British Liberal statesman. Prime Minister 1908-1916. Cartoon by Spy (Leslie Ward) from Vanity Fair, London, July 1904

Clement Atlee (1883-1967) British Labour statesman: Deputy prime minister in wartime cabinet under Churchill (1842-1945): prime minister 1945-1951. Member of Parliament for Limehouse

Mustafa Kemel Ataturk (1881-1938) Turkish statesman: leader of Turkish nationalist movement from 1909: responsible for modernisation of Turkey. President 1923-1928

Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928) British statesman. Chancellor of Exchequer 1905-1908. Prime Minister 1908-1916. Photograph

Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964) making a speech in Parliament. American-born British politician. Conservative Member of Parliament for Plymouth 1919

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1904) Prussian (German) statesman. Chancellor of new German empire 1866-1890. Gill cartoon published in La Lune Paris 1867 showing Bismarck as cat with mousetrap

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1904) German (Prussian) statesman. Bismarck in 1850 when Conservative Deputy and Inspector of Dykes. Engraving

Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) German (Prussian) statesman. Bismarck in 1858 as Envoy at the German Diet. Engraving

Eduard Bernstein (1850-1932) German socialist leader. Lived in England 1808-1901. Associate of Engels. Engraving

Otto von Bismarck (1815-98) German (Prussian) statesman. Tinted lithograph London c1880

Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826-1900) German social democrat. Took part in Baden Insurrection 1848-1849 and fled into exile. Elected to Reichstag 1867. Engraving

Ferdinand Lasalle (1825-1864) German social democrat. First President of Universal German Workmens Union, 1862. Engraving after a photograph

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) British Liberal statesman. Tinted lithograph published London c1880

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) as an old man seated in his study. British Liberal statesman. Oleograph published c1890

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (1899 - 1953 Georgian Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security)
Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (1899 - 1953 Georgian Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Stalin)

Gregory Yevseevich Zinoviev 1883 - 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician

Sir Edward Richard George Ted Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 - 17 July 2005)
Sir Edward Richard George " Ted" Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 - 17 July 2005), British Conservative Party leader (1965 75) and Prime Minister (1970 74)

Dr John Karefa-Smart (right) Sierra Leones first Foreign Minister, with Sir Milton Augustus Strieby Margai (1895-1964) Sierra Leonean politician

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