Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh NPG Ax17524

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington

Initially Private Secretary to William Gladstone at the Board of Trade, he entered Parliament in 1855. He served as President of the Board of Trade, Secretary of State for India, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was jointly responsible for one of the best-known social reforms of the century, was a financier of note, and loyally served two great Tory leaders, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli. His name is now most associated with the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1835, which advised on various aspects... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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