Balliol College Alumni Portraits

[tree_and_leaf]

If you click on the link and scroll to the bottom of the page, you will find a picture of a certain well-known Balliol man who is certainly of interest to many of the people on my flist...

http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/history/portraits/index.asp

Comments

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

He does seem to have been going through a slightly flash fashion stage.

[tree_and_leaf]

He was probably horribly embarrassed by it in later life....

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

"That is a Sargent, which is the only excuse for its existence."

[tree_and_leaf]

Of course! I knew it rang a bell!

[tree_and_leaf]

I sent the link to my mother, who suggest it was in his "Must impress Barbara" phase, or else that it was a present from her. I'm not sure about the chronology of this, but I like the idea. Mum really ought to write fanfic...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I am now imagining a "get a parent/relative to write fanfic" challenge.

I like your mother's idea - Uncle Paul's chronology would have it out by a year, but I think it's perfectly possible for him or the date on the website to be in error.