Resignation Collection

Jeeves and Wooster
In Thank You Jeeves!, Jeeves gives notice when Bertie Wooster, his employer, insists on playing the banjolele

David Lloyd George leaving Downing Street
Lloyd George pictured leaving Downing Street after his resignation with his wife and daughter Megan. His resignation announcement featured in the Court circular of 19th October

Disraeli as Pm / 1868
Disraeli addresses the Commons for the first time as Prime Minister, following Lord Derbys resignation. Date: March 1868

CAMPERDOWN Viscount Duncans victory and Admiral de Winters resignation on board the Venerable. British defeat of the Dutch fleet. Date: 11 October 1797

RMS Titanic officer Charles Lightoller - resignation
RMS Titanic - Second Officer Charles Lightoller's resignation. Letter from Charles Bartlett, Marine Superintendent of White Star Line, dated 13 February 1920 to Charles Lightoller

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Este dolor no se cura con resignacion (This Sorrow doesnt get over with resignation). Picture from the series Galicia martir (Martyr Galicia)

Comic postcard, Maid, mistress and master Date: 20th century

Cartoon, The Queen, Lord John Russell, Sir Robert Peel
Cartoon, The Queen, Prince Consort, Lord John Russell, and Sir Robert Peel. A comment on the resignation of Peel as Prime Minister (27 June), and his replacement by Russell (three days later). 1846

Napoleon Bonaparte forced to abdicate by Marshal Michel Ney who holds pistols to his head, while a Turk sharpens a scimitar outside

Edwin Montagu and Gandhi
A page from The Graphic, depicting Edwin Montagu(1879 -1924) at the time of his resignation as Secretary of State for India, and the recently arrested Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948)

Resting (1905). Orpen, Sir William 1878-1931. The model used for Resting was one of Orpen?s favourites, a young washerwoman called Lottie Stafford who lived in a decrepit street called Paradise Walk

Cardinal Wolsey resigns the Great Seal
Cardinal Wolsey, by order of Henry VIII, resigning the Great Seal

Disraeli / Headmaster
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy becomes the New Head Master, alias Prime Minister, on the resignation of Lord Derby on 27 February 1868 Date: 7 March 1868

B. H. M. K Von Bulow
B. H. M. K VON BULOW Bernhard Heinrich Martin Karl von Bulow. Prussian statesman and German chancellor before losing confidence in Wilhelm II, resulting in resignation. Date: 1849 - 1929

The Right Hon. Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), who resigned from his seat in the Cabinet by letter to Mr Asquith on 11th November 1915. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Integrity retiring from Office! by James Gillray. The outgoing Tory government ministers, led by William Pitt, leave through the Treasury arch

The New War Ministry, WW1
The new war ministry following the resignation of Herbert Asquith on 4 December 1916. Centre is Prime Minister David Lloyd George

Macmillan speaking inn the House, Profumo Scandal
" We have not been parties to deception." Artists impression by Juliet Pannett, special artist for the ILN, showing Prime Minister Harold Macmillan

Col R W Schumacher, Transvaal Boy Scouts Association
Illuminated address presented to Colonel R W Schumacher, Commissioner, Transvaal Boy Scouts Association, South Africa, on the occasion of his resignation

Incomings and outgoings on the outbreak of WW1
Incomings and outgoings on the outbreak of the First World War. Top left: Earl Roberts, walking to the House of Commons. Top right: Viscount Morley

Jobs Resignation after receiving the successive blows of unprecedented calamities. circa early 18th century

SPAIN. Madrid. Spain (1923). Resignation of Prime Minister Manuel Garcic Prieto after Primo de Riveras military uprising

Letter from Ann Burnet to daughter-in-law Sarah Burnet, resigning her right as his will and power, 2 December 1759 Date: 1759

Resignation. Shepherd with sheep and dog. Date c1859

Churchill leaving Downing Street after 1945 election defeat
Front cover of the ILN featuring Winston Churchill leaving Downing Street for Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the King after his election defeat of 1945

Government Critics
Its a thankless task stopping a Punch ball - The harder you hit it, the harder it comes back. Cartoon showing the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George

Sir Albert de Rutzen (1831-1913), Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, at the time of his resignation, not long before he died

Laine Resigns
After being defeated on a question of changing the electoral laws, Laine resigns as president of the Assembly, but Louis XVIII refuses to accept his resignation

Resignation the Greatest of all Virtues

1846 / Peel Resigns as Pm
Robert Peel resigns as Prime Minister. His repeal of the Corn Laws had split the Conservative Party, leaving him no option but resignation

Edward II Deposed
Sir William Trufsell and other deputies receiving the resignation of Edward II

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