page_title: Walter Benington
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caption_attribution_description: Creator: Hans Studios Ltd. Date: Unknown Format: Half tone reproduction Collection: The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the National Media Museum Inventory no: 2003-5001/2/24054 Blog post: Snappy 5th birthday Flickr Commons Reading from left to right the names are as follows: Walter Benington, Frederick H. Evans, George Davison, Malcolm Arbuthnot, Reginald Craigie (seated), J. Dudley Johnstone [sic], F. J. Mortimer, J. Craig Annan. Walter Benington's (1832 - 1976) first success was a picture entitled 'Among the Housetops', exhibited in 1893. e was elected to the The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring in 1902 (aka 'Housetopper'). In 1927 Benington began working as a freelance portrait photographer at Elliott &amp; Fry. Frederick Evans (1853 - 1943) was a bookseller and photographer. He bought his first camera in 1883 for photomicroscopic and landscape photography. George Smith, owner of the Sciopticon Company, made lantern slides from Evans's negatives. In 1887 Evans received the Photographic Society of London's medal of honour for his photomicrographs.
context_page_description: Walter Benington was a British photographer whose work is heavily represented in the National Portrait Gallery. Benington joined the Linked Ring in about 1893 and exhibited with them thereafter. From 1927 he worked as a freelance portrait photographer for Elliott & Fry. His sitters included Ellen Terry, Albert Einstein and Arthur Conan Doyle.
context_section_description: Walter Benington (1872–1936) was a British photographer whose work is heavily represented in the National Portrait Gallery. Benington joined the Linked Ring in about 1893 and exhibited with them thereafter. From 1927 he worked as a freelance portrait photographer for Elliott & Fry. His sitters included Ellen Terry, Albert Einstein and Arthur Conan Doyle.
caption: The Selecting Committee of the Photographic Salon of the Linked Ring. Benington on the far left.
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