Notes: George Isaac Huntingford (1748-1832) was born at Winchester. He was a Scholar of Winchester College, 1762-1766, and Fellow of New College, Oxford, 1768-85. In the 1770s he returned to Winchester as Commoner Tutor and Undermaster. He was a Fellow of Winchester, 1785-1789, and Warden, 1789-1832. He was Bishop of Gloucester (1802-15) and Bishop of Hereford (1815-32), but remained at Winchester as Warden throughout both tenures.

The putative identification of the sitter seems to depend on similarities with Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of Huntingford (Ao67).

Provenance: Purchased by Winchester College in 1986

Literature: B. Shurlock, The Winchester Story (Horndean, 1986), p. 70, ill.

Location: Warden’s Lodgings