Catalogue Number
NMLH.1993.233.1
Object Name
Photograph
People
Bevin, Ernest
Description
Black and white photograph of Ernest Bevin stood in a garden with a woman (likely his wife, Florence Anne Townley). Bevin is holding a pipe, and both people are looking off camera.
On the reverse are press stamps reading 'photo by Oswald Wild' and 'Personal Print Life Magazine Photo'.
Bevin was a trade union leader and Labour Party politician. He served as the General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (T&GWU) from 1922 to 1940. He served as Minister of Labour and National Service during WWII and was the post-war Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
