Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Abbot as effigy at Guildford Church NPG D7129

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Unknown sculptor

George Abbot studied, and then taught, at Balliol College, Oxford. He was chosen Master of University College in 1597, and appointed Dean of Westminster in 1600. Abbot was three times Vice Chancellor of the university, and took a leading part in preparing the authorised version of the New Testament. In 1608 he went to Scotland with George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar to arrange for a union between the churches of England and Scotland. He so pleased King James in this affair that he... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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