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Prince Henry of Battenberg
 
Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse
 
Fridtjof Nansen
 
Mary Kingsley
 
J. M. Barrie
 
Horatius Bonar
 
John George Wood
 
Richard William Church
 
John Everett Millais
 
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
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The Labour Lord Chancellor.
A forecast.
Lord Haldane.
Prescient cartoon from Punch magazine March 3rd, 1920, after Haldane's term as Liberal Lord Chancellor and three years before his term as Labour Lord Chancellor.

"I think it would be a calamity if we did anything to prevent the economic use of charabancs." — Sir Eric Geddes.
First "Banc." Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Churchill.
Second "Banc." Sir E. Geddes, Mr. Shortt, Mr. Long, Sir Robert Horne, Col. Amery.
Third "Banc." Mr. Illingworth, Lord E. Talbot, Mr. Fisher, Dr. Addison, Sir Gordon Hewart.
Fourth "Banc." Mr. Kellaway, Sir M. Barlow, Sir L. Worthington Evans, Sir A.G. Boscawen, Mr. Towyn Jones.
Fifth "Banc." Sir Hamar Greenwood, Mr. Baldwin, Sir James Craig, Mr. Denis Henry, Mr. Neal.
Sixth "Banc." Mr. Montagu, Dr. Macnamara, Mr. McCurdy, Mr. Ian Macpherson, Sir A. Mond.


Cartoon in Punch magazine 18 August 1920 depicting Lloyd George's government ministers, against a quote from that week's Hansard. Going to the Country is an idiom for the calling of an election; in this case, Punch's prediction was off by some two years.]]


Cartoon from Punch magazine 18 August 1920, on the occasion of Krasin visiting Parliament to listen to a Lloyd George speech on the future of Poland]]

"Blimy! Nor it 'as! I knew I'd forgotten somefink."


Cartoon in Punch magazine 25 August 1920. A half crown was a coin worth one-eighth of a pound]]

 
"I want to spread a little sunshine."
Cartoon in Punch magazine 25 August 1920, showing Joan Barry as accompanist.
The pair were in a production of a play, "His Lady Friends", which included a repeated song chorus
I want to spread a little sunshine
I want to drive away the rain
described as "banal" by one contemporary critic
 
Mollie. "Auntie, don't cats go to heaven?"
Auntie. "No, my dear. Didn't you hear the Vicar say at the Children's Service that animals hadn't souls and therefore could not go to heaven?"
Mollie. "Where do they get the strings for the harps, then?"
Cartoon in Punch magazine 4 August 1920
 
The League of Youth
War-weary World (at the Jamboree). "I was nearly losing hope, but the sight of all you boys gives it back to me."
Cartoon in Punch magazine 4 August 1920, referring to the 1st World Scout Jamboree in the context of the aftermath of World War I
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A Generous Teapot.
Colonel Wedgwood.
Cartoon in Punch magazine 14 July 1920, referencing Wedgewood's connection with the pottery business, and commenting on his support in a Committee on the Finance Bill for an assault on tea duty.

Cartoon in Punch magazine 14 July 1920, on the occasion of Montagu labelling as "frightful" General Dyer for his role in the Amritsar massacre, as it was then known.]]

 
James Russell Lowell
 
True Politeness.
"Your eel, I think, Sir?"
Cartoon in Punch magazine 28 July 1920

Sir Robert Horne, President of the Board of Trade, and Sir Eric Geddes, Minister of Transport (speaking together). "That's a rummy get-up. But perhaps he couldn't afford anything better."


Cartoon from Punch magazine, 7 July 1920, referring to a bill introduced by Horne (left) concerned with state control of mining, which was similar to an anticipated bill from Geddes (right) concerned with the railways]]

 
Cover of Recreation by Grey of Falloden, 1920, Houghton Mifflin Company
 
Robert Pitcairn
 
Dunfermline Abbey
 
Thomas Alexander Scott
 
John Edgar Thomson
 
Junius Spencer Morgan
 
Charles M. Schwab
 
Andrew Carnegie & James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
 
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
 
Herbert Spencer at 78
 
Andrew and Thomas Carnegie - AC aged 16
 
Andrew Carnegie circa 1878
 
Andrew Carnegie at Skibo 1914
 
Andrew Carnegie's birthplace, Dunfermline
 
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X - dust jacket
 
Ottokar Graf Czernin
 
John FitzGibbon
 
HMS Mantis, watercolour illustration by an official artist of the Mesopotamian Campaign, Donald Maxwell
 
Walter Camp, pictured as Yale's Captain, 1878-79
 
Illustration of a housefly
 
Encourage Home Industries.
Lord Robert Cecil. "I trust that after all we may secure at least your qualified support for our League of Nations?"
U.S.A. President-elect: "Why, what's the matter with ours?"
Cartoon from Punch magazine, 10 November 1920, depicting Cecil advocating a design for the League of Nations to Warren G. Harding

(Athanasius against the world)
Banbury illustrated in Punch, 10 November 1920, celebrating a day (Nov 1) on which he spoke against all measures introduced into the House of Commons
]]

Wales and Sir A. Griffith-Boscawen.


Cartoon from Punch magazine 10 November 1920, commenting on his work as a junior minister in establishing an Agricultural Wages Board]]

 
Georges Guynemer, Knight of the Air; illustration from the Bordeaux book of the same name
 
Rapunzel, from an edition of Grimms Fairy Tales, illustrated by Johnny Gruelle