Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Michael Edward Hicks Beach, 1st Earl St Aldwyn NPG Ax8711

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lock & Whitfield

Hicks Beach entered Parliament as a Conservative MP in 1864. He was opposed to the 1867 Reform Bill, but acted as a go-between for the parties over reform in 1884, when he negotiated a compromise that allowed the Liberals' Franchise Bill through the House of Lords on condition that a redistribution bill followed. He held many senior political offices, including Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1878 to 1880, but his career reached its peak in 1885 when he was appointed Chancellor of the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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