Credit: ©Godfrey Argent Studio
    Image number: RS.20061

    Portrait of Christopher Hinton

    Date
    1951
    Sitter
    Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside (1901 - 1983, British) , Civil engineer
    Creator
    Walter Stoneman (1876 - 1958, British) , Photographer
    Creator - Organisation
    J. Russell & Sons, Photographer
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    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 200mm
    width (print): 150mm
    Subject
    Description
    Seated portrait of Christopher Hinton, a book open on the table in front of him, looking left of the camera as viewed. Dressed in a white shirt and a black suit and tie.

    Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside (1901-1983), British civil engineer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1954. He received the Society’s Rumford Medal in 1970 ‘in recognition of his outstanding contributions to engineering and of his leadership of engineering design teams in the chemical and atomic energy industries and in electricity generation’.
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