Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Wilberforce NPG 4997

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Richmond

The son of a wealthy Hull merchant, William Wilberforce first entered Parliament in 1780. His conversion to evangelical Christianity five years later deflected him from an orthodox political career, and thereafter he devoted his life to prayer and meditation and to scrupulous attention to his duties in Parliament. He and his associates, known collectively as 'the Saints', had two objectives: the abolition of the slave trade and the reform of contemporary morals. His bill abolishing the slave trade in the British colonies finally became law... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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