Peter Ustinov, 1940s.
Prince Philip of Greece, 1939.
Eighteen year old inventor, H. Day wearing headphones attached to a wireless (radio) under his top hat, 1922.
Actor Rupert Everett by photographer Lord Snowdon (March 7, 1930-January 13, 2017), 1982.
Rupert Brooke.
This tumblr now has 5,300 + followers. I am so happy to see it attracted so many. I envisioned this blog to be a repertory of classy images of beautiful men and interesting boys from the beginning of the photography age until the 60’s (and sometimes after). I haven’t been updating much lately and I believe it is because I think of this tumblr as a repository, a static place where only the best images are shown once. I have made it with the tags so images can be found through decades, countries, years, names, occupations and themes. I will keep up with this tumblr as time allows, but you will not see the same image reposted over and over again. So thank you followers, and I hope you keep enjoying my curated tumblr of once gone but never forgotten men of beauty, courage, talent and grit.
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Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India.
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British theatre manager Hugh "Binkie" Beaumont, Angela Baddeley and Emlyn Williams, in a portrait by Angus McBean. © The President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas, and his older brother Percy, c.1890.
Sir Anthony John Charles Meyer
(1920-2004)
A firm supporter of Britain's integration in the EU, he'd turn in his grave if he knew what just happened.
English actor Ralph Forbes (1904-1951).
Edward Marsh and Winston Churchill, 1907.
British spy working for the Soviets during WWII and the Cold War, Guy Burgess (1911-1963) of the ‘Cambridge Five’. Burgess was gay, highly promiscuous, and an alcoholic who talked too much, but his well placed connections always managed to keep him safe. In 1951 he fled to Russia and spent the rest of his life there, missing his homeland he’d betrayed.
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London. 1957.
© Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos
Rupert Brooke at Buckler’s Hard, 1910. From Song of Love, The Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier, edited by Pippa Harris.
British rock singer Tommy Steele. 1950's.
British Antartic explorer Belgrave E.S. Ninnis. He died at 23 when he fell into a crevace with his sledge and dogs December 14, 1912. His body was never recovered. Here as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers in London.