Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey NPG D15988

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave), after Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey

As Lord Paget, Anglesey served with great distinction as cavalry commander under Sir John Moore during the retreat to Corunna in 1809, the 'Dunkirk' of the Peninsular war. He was prevented from serving under Wellington's in the Peninsula by a scandal: he ran off with Wellington's brother Henry's wife Lady Charlotte Wellesley. Wellington, though, was happy to accept him as a subordinate for the Waterloo campaign, crushing a colleague who reminded him of Anglesey's reputation with: 'I'll take good care he don't run... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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