Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Buckland NPG D32312

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel Cousins, after Thomas Phillips

Buckland's interest in natural history was aroused as a boy exploring the quarries and woods of his native Devon. He was elected a fellow of Oxford University in 1808 and was ordained a priest, continuing to pursue his interest in minerals and geology. Appointed Reader in Mineralogy in 1813 and in Geology in 1818 at Oxford, his lectures were the most popular in the university. He was initially a proponent of flood geology, a creationist theory that assumed the literal truth of the story of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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