Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith NPG Ax16002

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by W. & D. Downey, published by Cassell & Company, Ltd

Leonard Courtney was a radical politician who gained fame as an advocate of proportional representation in Parliament and as an opponent of imperialism and militarism. A lawyer, journalist and teacher of political economy, he was elected to the House of Commons in 1876. Appointed financial secretary to the Treasury by Gladstone in 1882, he resigned in 1884 when the Cabinet refused to include proportional representation in a reform bill. From 1877, when the Transvaal was annexed, Courtney was a constant critic of British imperial... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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