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Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon

The Right Honourable The Earl of Snowdon GCVO FRSA RDI
Armstrong-Jones in 1965
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 16 November 1999 – 31 March 2016 Life peerage
Political party	Crossbencher[1]
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge
Occupation	Photographer

Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO FRSA RDI (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017) was a British photographer and filmmaker who married Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II.

Early life

Armstrong-Jones was the only son from the marriage of the Welsh barrister Ronald Armstrong-Jones (1899–1966) and his first wife Anne Messel (later Countess of Rosse; 1902–1992). He was born at Eaton Terrace in Belgravia, central London.^[2] He was called "Tony" by his close relatives.^[3][4][5]

Armstrong-Jones's paternal grandfather was Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, the British psychiatrist and physician.^[6] His paternal grandmother, Margaret Armstrong-Jones (née Roberts), was a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, and was the daughter of Sir Owen Roberts, the Welsh educationalist.^[7] Armstrong-Jones's mother's family was of German-Jewish descent.^[8] A maternal uncle was Oliver Messel (1904–1978); a maternal great-grandfather was the Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne (1844–1910); and his great-great-uncle Alfred Messel was a well-known Berlin architect.^[9] Additionally, his great-great-grandmother, Frances Linley, was a first cousin of Elizabeth Linley, wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.^[10]

Armstrong-Jones's parents divorced in early 1935, before his fifth birthday.^[11] His mother remarried later that year. As a schoolboy he contracted polio while on holiday at their country home in Wales. During the six months that he was in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary recuperating, his only family visits were from his sister Susan.^[12][13]

Education

Armstrong-Jones was educated at two independent boarding schools: first at Sandroyd School^[14] in Wiltshire from the autumn term of 1938 to 1943.

Armstrong-Jones then attended Eton College, beginning in the autumn term ("Michaelmas half") of 1943.^[15] In March 1945, he qualified in the "extra special weight" class of the School Boxing Finals.^[16] He continued to box in 1946, gaining at least two flattering mentions in the Eton College Chronicle.^[17][18] In 1947, he was a coxswain in Eton's traditional "Fourth of June" Daylight Procession of Boats.^[16]

He then matriculated at the University of Cambridge, where he studied architecture at Jesus College but failed his second-year exams.^[19] He coxed the winning Cambridge boat in the 1950 Boat Race.^[20]

Life and career

After university, Armstrong-Jones began a career as a photographer in fashion, design and theatre. His stepmother had a friend who knew Baron the photographer; Baron visited Armstrong-Jones in his London flat, which doubled as his work studio.^[21] Baron, impressed, agreed to bring on Armstrong-Jones as an apprentice, first on a fee-paying basis^[21] but eventually, as his talent and skills became apparent to Baron, as a salaried associate.^[22]

Much of his early commissions were theatrical portraits, often with recommendations from his uncle Oliver Messel, and "society" portraits highly favoured in Tatler, which, in addition to buying a lot of his photographs, gave him byline credit for the captions.^[23] He later became known for his royal studies, among which were the official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh for their 1957 tour of Canada.^[24] He was also an early contributor to Queen magazine, the magazine owned by his friend Jocelyn Stevens.^[25][26]

In the early 1960s Snowdon became the artistic adviser of The Sunday Times Magazine, and by the 1970s had established himself as one of Britain's most respected photographers. Though his work included everything from fashion photography to documentary images of inner-city life and the mentally ill, he is best known for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The Daily Telegraph magazine. His subjects include Marlene Dietrich; Laurence Olivier; Maggie Smith; Leslie Caron;^[23] Lynn Fontanne;^[23]David Bowie; Elizabeth Taylor; Rupert Everett; Anthony Blunt;^[27] David Hockney;^[28] Princess Grace of Monaco; Diana, Princess of Wales; Barbara Cartland; Raine Spencer (when she was Lady Lewisham); Desmond Guinness;^[28] British prime minister Harold Macmillan;^[28] Iris Murdoch;^[28] Tom Stoppard;^[28] Vladimir Nabokov^[28] and J. R. R. Tolkien.^[29] Over 100 of his photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery in London.^[30]

In 1968 he made his first documentary film, Don't Count the Candles,^[31] for the U.S. television network CBS, on the subject of ageing. It won seven awards,^[24] including two Emmys.^[32][33] This was followed by Love of a kind (1969), about the British and animals,^[34] Born to be small (1971) about people of restricted growth^[35] and Happy being happy(1973).^[36]

In October 1981, a group portrait by Snowdon of the British rock band Queen was used on the cover of their Greatest Hits album. A Snowdon portrait of Freddie Mercury was used in 2000 on the cover of Mercury's compilation box set The Solo Collection.

In 2000, Snowdon was given a retrospective exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Photographs by Snowdon: A Retrospective,^[37] which travelled to the Yale Center for British Art the following year.^[38] More than 180 of his photographs were displayed in an exhibition that honoured what the museums called "a rounded career with sharp edges".^[38]

Snowdon was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society – he was awarded the Hood Medal of the Society in 1978 and the Progress Medal in 1985.^[39][40]

In 2006, Tomas Maier, creative director of the Italian fashion brand Bottega Veneta, brought Snowdon in to photograph his Fall/Winter 2006 campaign.^[41]

Designs and inventions

Armstrong-Jones co-designed (in 1963, with Frank Newby and Cedric Price) the "Snowdon Aviary" of the London Zoo (which opened in 1964); he later said it was one of his creations of which he was most proud, and affectionately called it the "birdcage".^[13] He also had a major role in designing the physical arrangements for the 1969 investiture of his nephew Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.^[42]

He was granted a patent for a type of electric wheelchair in 1971.^[43]

Philanthropy and charity

During his royal marriage, he was patron of the National Youth Theatre, the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, the Welsh Theatre Company, and the Civic Trust for Wales.^[23] He was also President of the British Theatre Museum.^[23]

In June 1980 Lord Snowdon started an award scheme for disabled students.^[44] This scheme, administered by the Snowdon Trust, provides grants and scholarships for students with disabilities.^[45]

In the 1960s he served in the capacity of a council member of the Polio Research Fund^[46] (later renamed the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases). He served as a trustee of the National Fund for Research into Crippling Diseases (since renamed Action Medical Research).^[23] He was president for England of the International Year of Disabled Persons in 1981.^[44] He was provost of the Royal College of Art from 1995 to 2003.^[47]