Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Archibald Spooner ('Men of the Day. No. 711.') NPG D44903

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Leslie Ward

William Spooner was educated at New College, Oxford; he remained at the college for more than sixty years, serving as fellow (1867), lecturer (1868), tutor (1869), dean (1876-89), and warden (1903-30). He lectured on ancient history, divinity, and philosophy, especially Aristotle's ethics. Spooner is best known for the verbal slip named after him, the Spoonerism, where parts of words are switched. Many of the phrases attributed to him are apocryphal however.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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