Portrait of George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920-2002) horizontal The Ferrari pit

The Ferrari pit

and the perceived threat of invasion by Napoleon III

He had become the Conservative's Colonial Secretary

'Sir John Garrard

An official bends over the bonnet of the Ferrrai

Portrait of George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham (1920-2002) horizontal The Ferrari pitHalf length portrait of George Porter, apparently in the President's Office of the Royal Society at Carlton House Terrace. Porter leans against a nineteenth century wooden library table with both hands on the table edge, his folded spectacles held in the right hand. Behind and to the right as viewed, a wooden door. To the right, a collection of laboratory glassware on two shelves. Porter is dressed in a blue grey suit with a white shirt and blue tie