Timothy Michael Healy ('Statesmen. No. 485.') Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Timothy Michael Healy ('Statesmen. No. 485.') NPG D44273
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Sir Leslie Ward
Irish-born Healy entered Parliament as an MP in 1880, where he was associated with Charles Stewart Parnell, the leading Irish nationalist. He became an authority on the Irish land question and was responsible for the 'Healy Clause' of the Land Act of 1881, which protected tenant farmers from rent increases imposed by landlords. He broke with Parnell in 1886, though he was a strong supporter of proposals for Irish Home Rule. Healy supported the Sinn Féin Party after 1917. Regarded as an elder statesman... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










