Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Iain Macleod NPG x87693

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Bird

A leading bridge player, Macleod turned to politics after the Second World War. He unsuccessfully contested a seat at the 1945 general election and then joined the Conservative Parliamentary Secretariat. He was elected MP in 1950. In the Eden and Macmillan governments, he served first as Minister of Labour and National Service and then as Secretary of State for the Colonies. Here he presided over considerable decolonisation, seeing Nigeria, British Somaliland, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Kuwait and British Cameroon become independent. He later served... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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