George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian 20th American Election captain of the Belgian team

captain of the Belgian team Anderlecht as they arrive at Speke airport

Nicholas Bacon (1509-1579) was a statesman and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the reign of Elizabeth I

The Liberal Home Secretary

View of Painter-Stainers' Hall

or the finishing flourish of a City officer

George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian 20th American Election captain of the Belgian teamGeorge Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist, critic and Fabian, 1893. The author of such well known works as Pygmalion and Saint Joan, Shaw (1856 1950) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. A committed socialist, he also wrote numerous pamphlets on social and political issues, many of them published by the Fabian Society. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, fourth series, Cassell and Company Limited (London, Paris and Melbourne, 1893).