| James Jarché | |
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| Born | September 8, 1890 Mile End, London, England |
| Died | August 6, 1965 (aged 74) Hampstead, London |
| Other names | Jimmy |
| Education | St Olave's Grammar School (expelled) |
| Occupation | Press photographer |
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James 'Jimmy' Jarché (8 September 1890[1] – 6 August 1965[1]) was a famous Fleet Street photographer notable for the first pictures of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and also for his pictures of Louis Blériot (1909) and the Siege of Sidney Street.
After an undistinguished school life (he was expelled from St Olave's Grammar School[1]) he was world amateur wrestling middleweight champion in 1909.[1]
In World War I, he stationed the rank of company sergeant-major with the 1st army corps school for physical training and bayonet training, serving in France.
He married Elsie Gladys, née Jezzard (1893/4–1971), of Epping, Essex on 18 August 1914. They lived with her parents, who ran the White Lion pub in that town.[1]
He worked a photographer for the Daily Sketch from 1912 to 1929,[1] then worked at The Graphic and the Daily Herald.[1]
He spent World War II as a British war correspondent for The Herald and the Weekly Illustrated and an official photographer for Life Magazine, in the Middle East.[1]
Tasked with photographing the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in black and white for Odhams Press, he reportedly also took colour photographs, which he sold independently, and was therefore sacked by Odhams.[1] He then worked for the Daily Mail until his retirement in 1959.[1]
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His wartime negatives are at the Imperial War Museum[1], his Daily Herald glass negatives are at the National Media Museum, Bradford,[1] and some of his work is in the National Portrait Gallery.[2]
Two of his grandchildren are the brothers, actor David Suchet and newsreader John Suchet.