Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir James Rivett Carnac, 1st Bt NPG 5128

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Patrick MacDowell

Bombay-born Carnac joined the East India Company in 1801 as a Cadet in the Madras Native Infantry. In 1802 he was appointed aide-de-camp to the Governor of Bombay and spent the next seventeen years working for the British administration in India. In 1822 he retired from the Indian service and went to England. In 1827 he was elected as Director of the East India Company, and from 1835 to 1838 served first as Deputy Chairman and then as Chairman. He became a Whig MP in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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