Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby NPG D35537

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Bryan Hall, printed by Wilkinson & Dawe, published by Henry Thomas Ryall, published by James Fraser, published by Sir Francis Graham Moon, 1st Bt, after Madame Meunier

Dudley Ryder was elected to his father's old Parliament seat of Tiverton in 1784, where he remained throughout his Commons career. William Pitt, the premier, became his friend and political patron and in 1790 Pitt appointed him Vice President of the Board of Trade, a post he held for eleven years. Ryder was in favour of abolition of the slave trade and of Catholic emancipation. On his father's death in 1803, he succeeded to the peerage, and in 1805 Pitt made him Chancellor of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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