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Anita McConnell
Abraham, George Dixon (1871–1965), photographer and rock-climber, was born at Derwent Street, Keswick, Cumberland, on 7 October 1871, the eldest son of George Perry Abraham (1844–1923), photographer, and his wife, Mary, née Dixon. G. P. Abraham had moved from London to Keswick, where he established a very successful photographic business and was for fifteen years a councillor. ...
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Acland, Sarah Angelina [Angie] (1849–1930), photographer, was born at Broad Street, Oxford, on 26 June 1849, the second of eight children and only daughter of the physician Henry Wentworth Acland (1815–1900), who was then Lee's reader in anatomy at Christ Church, Oxford, and his wife, ...
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S. K. Hillhouse
Adam, Robert Moyes (1885–1967), photographer and botanist, was born on 1 January 1885 at the Evangelical Union manse, Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the son of John Adam (1841–c.1916), minister in the Evangelical Union church, and Isabella Adam (née Moyes). He was to become a botanist at the ...
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W. J. Leatherbarrow
Adams, John Franklin- (1843–1912), astronomer and astrophotographer, was born on 5 August 1843 in Nelson Square, Peckham, London, the son of John Adams, a shipowner and underwriter at Lloyds, and his wife, Ann, née Hodges. Originally named John Adams, he was educated at ...
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William Buchanan
Annan, James Craig (1864–1946), photographer, was born on 8 March 1864, the second of the seven children of Thomas Annan (1829/30–1887), photographer, and his wife, Mary Young Craig, at 15 Burnbank Road, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, in Talbot Cottage, named after William Henry Fox Talbot...
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Sara Stevenson
Annan, Thomas (1829/30–1887), photographer, was apparently the fifth of the seven children of John Annan (1792–1869), a farmer, flax spinner, and corn miller, who lived in the parish of Dairsie in Fife, and his wife, Agnes Bell (1791?–1878). He left home in November 1845 to begin an apprenticeship as a lithographic writer and engraver with the ...
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Anson, Thomas Patrick John, fifth earl of Lichfield [known as Patrick Lichfield] (1939–2005), photographer, was born on 25 April 1939 at 16 Embankment Gardens, Chelsea, London, the only son and elder child of Thomas William Arnold Anson, Viscount Anson (1913–1958), army officer, and elder son and heir of the ...
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Philip Carter
Argent, (Bernard) Godfrey (1937–2006), photographer, was born on 6 February 1937 at Taringa, Eastbourne Road, Willingdon, Sussex, the only son of Godfrey Stanley Albert Argent, a motor engineer for a local builders' merchant, and his wife, Helena, née Smith. The couple also had two daughters. He was educated at ...
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Jones, Antony Charles Robert [Tony] Armstrong-, first earl of Snowdon and Baron Armstrong-Jones (1930–2017), photographer, designer, and campaigner for disabled rights, was born at 25 Eaton Terrace, Belgravia, London, on 7 March 1930, the younger child and only son of Ronald Owen Lloyd (Ronnie) Armstrong-Jones...
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Antony Armstrong-Jones, first Earl of Snowdon (1930–2017), by Roger George Clark, 1979
© Roger George Clark / National Portrait Gallery, London
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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 ...