William Jay Greetings Card

Prix habituel £4.00

Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Jay NPG D36487

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Overton, published by and after T. Langdon

Jay began training with his father as a stonemason and worked with him on alterations to Fonthill House, but in 1785 he entered Cornelius Winter's school at Marlborough. Winter's theological training concentrated on practical evangelism, and his students were expected to preach in the surrounding villages. By the time Jay was twenty-one he had preached nearly a thousand times. In 1791, Jay was ordained pastor of Argyle Independent Chapel at Bath; he remained there for sixty-two years. He was popular and one of the most... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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