Secretary Collection (#30)

Dr Archie Merton Ballantyne OBE
Dr Archie Merton Ballantyne, OBE, HonFRAeS, 1908-1977, Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1951-1973, during the excavations for the Lecture Theatre. Date: 1908

G C May - RAeS Secretary 1985-1988
G.C. May, CEng, MIProdE, MRAeS, RAeS Secretary 1985-1988. Date: 1985

T OB Hubbard with the Martinside F4A G-EAPP
T. OB. Hubbard, HonFRAeS, with the Martinside F4A, G-EAPP, which he flew to eighth place in the 1920 Aerial Derby. RAeS Secretary 1911-1912. Date: 1920

Capt J Laurence Pritchard HonFRAeS RAeS Secretary
Capt J. Laurence Pritchard, HonFRAeS, RAeS Secretary 1926-1951. Date: 1926

Col Hs Massey (chairman) - Stephen A Marples (secretary)
Col H.S. Massey (chairman) and Stephen A. Marples (secretary) of the Aerial League at the Model Flying Competition at Wembley, Saturday, 11 September 1909. Date: 1909

Dr Archie Merton Ballantyne OBE HonFRAeS (1908-1977)
Dr Archie Merton Ballantyne, OBE, HonFRAeS, 1908-1977, Secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1951-1973. Date: 1908

Wright brothers leaving the Smithsonian Institution
The Wright brothers leaving the Smithsonian Institution after the presentation of the Langley Medal. 10 February 1910. From left: Secretary Charles D. Walcott, Wilbur Wright, Dr A

Thoth, Ibis-headed god of the Moon holding wand, patron of scribes and magicians, secretary of the gods. Wall painting from Temple of Rameses II, Abu Simbel, Egypt

Ibis-headed god Thoth, secretary to the gods and patron of scribes: wall painting from Tombs of the Nobles, Thebes

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) Irish-born British soldier and statesman. Secretary of State for War at beginning of World War I

Dropping the Pilot, 1890. Otto von Biskarck (1815-1898) Prussian / German statesman
Dropping the Pilot, 1890. Otto von Biskarck (1815-1898) Prussian/German statesman resigned as Chancellor, together with his son the German foreign secretary

Weighing the heart of the deceased in a balance. Baboon is one form of Thoth, inventor of writing and secretary to the gods, whose other form is as an ibis-headed man

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598) English statesman, chief secretary of state to Elizabeth I from 1558. Cecil in crimson robe riding a white mule

Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 - July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841

Robert McNamara (1916 - 2009)American Secretary of Defense, under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968. President of the World Bank from 1968 until 1981

Edwin M Stanton (1814-1869) American politician and lawyer, 25th US Attorney General 1860-1861. During American Civil War served as Secretary of State for War 1862-1865 under Lincoln

Lyon Playfair (1819-1898) in 1885 when President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Scottish chemist and politician

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) English politician. Foreign Secretary 1830-1841: Prime Minister 1855-1857, 1858, 1858-1865: Engraving c1856

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

Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) French soldier, navigator and mathematician. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1756 while secretary to the French Embassy in London

Mr Frank Crisp (c1853-1919), English Limited Liability Lawyer one of whose personal interests was microscopy and who acted as Secretary of the Royal Microscopical Society

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

Ancient Egyptian Ibis-headed god Thoth, secretary to the gods and patron of scribes. wall painting from temple of Rameses II (1198-1167 BC) at Medinet Habu

Hans Sloane (1660-1753. English physician and naturalist. Founded Chelsea Physic Garden: Secretary to the Royal Society (1693-1713): Donated library of 50, 000 books and 3

Thoth, Ibis-headed god of the Moon, patron of scribes and magicians, secretary of the gods. Limestone relief, 5th-6th Dynasty

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

Assembly of the Provostship of the Merchants of Paris. From Ordonnances Royaux del la Prevote des Marchands et Eschevinage de la Ville de Paris Paris 1528. Woodcut

Left to Right: US president Nixon, King Baudouin of Belgium and Secretary General of NATo Joseph Luns at a NATO meeting 1969

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev meeting Chinese supreme leader, Deng Hsiao Ping

Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 or 1498 - 1543 (artist), Portrait of Sir Brian Tuke, oil on pane. Tuke was Treasurer and secretary to Henry VIII the king of England

Balfour visiting Jewish colonies, Palestine, 1925. Arthur James Balfour(1848-1930) British Conservative politician and statesman. UK Prime Minister 1902-1905

George Calett Marshall (1880-1959) American soldier and military leader. Chief of Staff of the US Army. Appointed Secretary of State by President Truman in 1945 he headed the European Recovery Plan

Colin Luther Powell (born 1937) African American soldier and statesman. United States Secretary of State 2001-2005. Formal head-and-shoulders photograph

Frank B Kellogg, right, US Secretary of State 1925-1929, defending American interference in Nicaragua, 1927

The Raven Cartoon by Joseph Keppler, 1890. Benjamin Harrison 23rd President of the USA (1889-1893) at desk. On bust Secretary of State Blaine, who disagreed with Harrison over McKinley Tariff

Anglo-American War 1812-1815 (War of 1812). James Madison, Fourth President of the United States, and possibly John Armstrong his Secretary of War, fleeing Washington

Mexican-American War 1846-1848. Proclamation of war with Mexico issued by United States President Polk and Secretary of State James Buchanan

Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) English diarist and naval administrator. Became Secretary to the Admiralty. Portrait by Godfrey Kneller

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865) addressing Parliament. Foreign Secretary 1830-1841: Prime Minister 1855-1857, 1858, 1858-1865

Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill (1849-1895) English Conservative politician. Secretary of State for India 1885, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1886. Father of Winston Churchill

William Cecil, lst Baron Burghley (1520-1598) appointed Secretary of State by Elizabeth I in 1558 and was the prominent English statesman of his age. Cecil in the robes of the Order of the Garter

The Colonies: Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) British Liberal statesman at the time he was Secretary of State for the Colonies (1895-1903). After cartoon by Spy from Vanity Fair, London, 1901

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Salisbury (1830-1903) British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister 1885, 1886, 1895-1902, at the time he was Secretary of State for India

Left to right, front row: West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel, Soviet Prime Mister Kosygin, Chancellor Willy Brandt, and Soviet Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev

Von Bulows last speech to the Reichstag, 16 June 1909. Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin von Bulow (1849-1929) German Foreign Secretary 1897-1909. Responsible for Weltpolitik - colonial expansion

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour (1848-1930) Scottish-born British Conservative statesman. Prime Minister 1902-1905 Balfour Declaration (1917)

John Harris (1667-1719), English mathematician, at the age of 40. Harrison was Secretary of the Royal Society (1709-1710)

William GGV Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) English lawyer and Liberal statesman, one of the great Parliamentarians of the late 19th century

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