Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner NPG D12126

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by William Daniell, after George Dance

Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner joined the Navy at the age of thirteen, and was promoted to captain eleven years later. He commanded a number of frigates and warships and served in the American War of Independence (1775-83). In 1786, he suppressed smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico and ordered detailed hydrographic surveys of Caribbean locations of interest to the Navy. In 1790 Gardner was appointed to a seat at the Board of Admiralty, which he held until 1795. He entered Parliament as an MP... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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