Auction Extraordinary Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Auction Extraordinary NPG D41456
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by John ('HB') Doyle, printed by Alfred Ducôte, published by Thomas McLean
A radical Whig lawyer and MP, Brougham campaigned for the advancement of education and reform. Entering Parliament in 1810 as a Whig, he promoted legislation against slave trading. Renown for his defence of Queen Caroline at her 1820 'trial'. As Lord Chancellor he played a leading part in drafting and promoting the Reform Bill (1832) with Lord Grey. Brougham co-founded the Whig periodical the Edinburgh Review (1802) with Sydney Smith. He helped establish the London Mechanics Institutes (1824), the Society for the... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










