Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Barrow NPG 905

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Stephen Pearce

John Barrow was the second son of the renowned secretary to the Admiralty of the same name. He entered the Admiralty as a clerk in 1824 where he rose through the ranks to become Head of the Admiralty Record Office in 1844. He was a founder member of the Hakluyt Society, and the only civilian member of the Arctic council that was established in 1851 to co-ordinate the search for missing Arctic explorer John Franklin. Barrow retired in 1855; he subsequently took an active... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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