Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Samuel Smiles ('Men of the Day. No. 252.')) NPG D44050

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Leslie Ward

Smiles studied medicine in Edinburgh, during which time he became involved in the campaign for parliamentary reform, contributing articles on the subject to the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle and the Leeds Times. In 1838, he became the editor of the Leeds Times, a position he held until being appointed secretary first to the Leeds and Thirsk Railway and then the South Eastern Railway. Smiles is best remembered as the writer of books extolling virtues of self-help, and biographies of 'heroic' engineers. He selected the topics of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.