Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Thomas Chaloner NPG D24868

© National Portrait Gallery, London

possibly by Joseph Halfpenny

Thomas Chaloner was a talented diplomat and scholar who served under four Tudor monarchs. He survived shipwreck off the cost of Algeria in 1541, and was knighted after fighting in England's defeat of the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie, 1547. He contributed to the unsuccessful marriage negotiations between Elizabeth I and Prince Maximilian of the Holy Roman Empire, 1558. In 1559-60 he was ambassador to Philip II in Flanders and served as Ambassador to Spain, 1562-1565. He is primarily remembered today as the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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