Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont NPG D11553

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by John Smith, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

Perceval was elected to the Irish House of Commons in 1703; he was raised to the Irish Peerage first as Baron, and then Viscount, Perceval. He was elected to the British House of Commons in 1727. In 1729, Perceval sat on the Parliamentary Gaols Committee chaired by James Oglethorpe, and the collaboration was instrumental in the founding of the colony of Georgia. Perceval was an enthusiastic supporter of Oglethorpe's scheme to establish the proposed new colony. He played a crucial role in securing the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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