Francis Horner Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Francis Horner NPG D3099

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir Henry Raeburn

In 1802, Francis Horner helped to found the Edinburgh Review, for whose editor, Francis Jeffrey, he was to supply many articles in the next few years. Horner entered Parliament as a Whig MP in 1806; the main issue on which he campaigned was that of Catholic Emancipation. He was part of the Holland House set, a circle of Whig politicians and men of letters which flourished around Henry Richard Fox, third Baron Holland, and his wife, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady Holland, at... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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