Artist

Frank Dobson

Portrait of Frank Dobson

1940–2019

Frank Dobson was a British Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Frank Gordon Dobson was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party he served in the First Blair ministry as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999, and was the Labour nominee for Mayor of London in 2000, finishing third behind Conservative Steven Norris and the winner, Labour-turned-Independent Ken Livingstone. Dobson stood down from his Parliament seat at the 2015 general election.

Collections represented

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