Margaret (née Gambier), Lady Middleton Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Margaret (née Gambier), Lady Middleton NPG 7043

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Jeremiah Meyer

Middleton was an evangelical Christian, instrumental in establishing the abolition movement. As a teenager, her independent mind was evident in her refusal to marry her father's choice of husband. She married instead naval captain Charles Middleton, who joined her at Barham Court, Teston, Kent, which became the focal point of the movement. William Wilberforce was a regular visitor, whom Margaret persuaded to take the cause to Parliament, whilst James Ramsay, vicar of Teston, published the Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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