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Imperial Conference Meets in London, May 1943, (1945). Creator: Unknown

Imperial Conference Meets in London, May 1943, (1945). Group portrait of leaders of the four semi-independent Dominions and British politicians at a meeting during the Second World War. Front row, left to right: Clement Attlee, New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Australian Prime Minister John Curtin, South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts, Anthony Eden. Standing: Lord Woolton, Oliver Lyttelton, Sir John Anderson, Ernest Bevin and Herbert Morrison. From "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill", by Malcolm Thomson. [Odhams Press Limited, London]

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The Original War Cabinet, 1939, (1945). Creator: Unknown

The Original War Cabinet, 1939, (1945). British politicians at the start of the Second World War. Standing from left to right: Sir John Anderson, Lord Hankey, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Winston Churchill, Sir Kingsley Wood, Anthony Eden, Sir Edward Bridges. Seated from left to right: Lord Halifax, Sir John Simon, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Sir Samuel Hoare and Lord Chatfield. From "The Life and Times of Winston Churchill", by Malcolm Thomson. [Odhams Press Limited, London]

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Lord William Russell Receiving the Sacrament, 1886. Artist: Robert Anderson

Lord William Russell Receiving the Sacrament, 1886. Lord Russell (1639-1683), English politician, was among the founders of the Whig Party. Russell supported attempts in Parliament to exclude the Roman Catholic James II from succeeding to the throne. He was accused, on trumped-up evidence, of complicity in the Rye House Plot to murder Charles II. He was executed in 1683. After Alexander Johnston (1815-1891). From Illustration of English and Scottish History, Volume I by Thomas Archer. [Blackie & Son, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh, 1886]

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