Arnold [née Cohen], Eve Deborah (1912–2012), photojournalist, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on 21 April 1912, one of nine children of William Cohen (formerly Velvel Sklarski), rabbi, and his wife, Bessie (or Bosya), née Laschiner. Her parents had emigrated from ...
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Beresford, George Charles (1864–1938), photographer and memoirist, was born at 15 Lypiatt Terrace, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 10 July 1864, the third son of Major Henry Marcus Beresford (1835–1895) of the 9th foot and his wife, Julia Ellen (d. 1923), daughter of the ...
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Bernard, Bruce Bonus (1928–2000), photographer and picture editor, was born on 21 March 1928 at 7 Shepherd's Hill, Highgate, London, the second of three sons and third of the five children (one of whom died in infancy) of Oliver Percy Bernard (1881–1939), stage designer and architect, and his second wife, ...
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Bown, Jane Hope (1925–2014), photographer, was born on 13 March 1925 in Bronsil House, Eastnor, Hereford. Her unorthodox upbringing—she was raised by a succession of aunts, all of whom, like her mother, had been given horticultural monikers (Primrose, Daisy (Jane’s mother), ...
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Cundall, Joseph (1818–1895), publisher and photographer, was born in Norwich, Norfolk, on 22 September 1818, the second son in the family of four sons and one daughter of Benjamin Cundall (1782–1875), a prosperous linen draper, and his wife, Eliza, née Gilman (1792–1823). Trained as a printer in ...
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Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge [pseud. Lewis Carroll] (1832–1898), author, mathematician, and photographer, was born at Daresbury parsonage, Cheshire, on 27 January 1832, the eldest son and third of eleven children of Charles Dodgson (1800–1868), curate of the parish, later rector of Croft-on-Tees, Yorkshire...
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Evans, Frederick Henry (1853–1943), bookseller and photographer, was born in Whitechapel, London, on 26 June 1853, the son of John Cleland Evans, a music teacher. He spent his early years as a clerk in the accounts department of a London business. After purchasing a Ross microscope, he bought a camera in 1883 for both photomicroscopic and landscape photography from ...
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Griffiths, Philip Jones (1936–2008), photojournalist, was born on 18 February 1936 at Monfa, Hylas Lane, Rhuddlan, Flintshire, the oldest of three sons of Joseph Griffiths (1903–1962), a railway master fitter who worked at Llandudno Junction, and his wife, Lizzie (Catherine) Jones (d...
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Hetherington, Timothy Alastair Telemachus [Tim] (1970–2011), photographer and filmmaker, was born on 5 December 1970 in Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, the younger son and youngest of three children of (William) Alastair Hetherington, chartered accountant, and his wife, Judith Mary, née Gillett, lawyer. At the time of his birth registration the family lived at ...
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Hollyer, Frederick (1838–1933), photographer and art publisher, was born on 17 June 1838 at 34 Penton Place, Clerkenwell, London, the youngest son of Samuel Hollyer, assistant sealer to the first Lord Brougham, the lord chancellor, and his wife, Mary Ann Hudson. Like his father and two of his brothers, he was trained as a reproductive engraver in mezzotint, and he engraved two paintings by ...
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Hutton, Kurt [formerly Kurt Heinrich Hübschmann] (1893–1960), photojournalist, was born in Strasbourg, Alsace (then Germany), on 11 August 1893, the son of J. Heinrich Hübschmann (d. c.1908), an authority on the Armenian language and professor of comparative philology at ...
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Mortimer, Francis James (1874–1944), photographer, writer, and editor, was born at 9 Ordnance Row, Portsea, Portsmouth, on 27 November 1874, the only son and second of the two children of Francis Charles Mortimer (1849–1909), a dental surgeon of Scilly Isles descent, and his wife, ...
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Spender, (John) Humphrey (1910–2005), photojournalist and artist, was born at 47 Campden House Court, Kensington, London, on 19 April 1910, the third son and youngest of the four children of (Edward) Harold Spender (1864–1926), journalist and author, and his wife, Violet Hilda, née...
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Tweedie, Penelope Anne [Penny] (1940–2011), photojournalist, was born on 30 April 1940 at Little Fowlers nursing home, Hawkhurst, Kent, the only daughter and eldest of three children of John Lawrence Tweedie (1916–1987), a farmer then serving as an aircraftsman in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve...