Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston NPG Ax39104

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Walter Stoneman, for James Russell & Sons

Johnston was closely involved in what has been called the 'scramble for Africa' by 19th-century colonial powers. He published forty books on African subjects and in the 1890s was the first British Commissioner in Nyasaland, now the Republic of Malawi. He went on to serve in a number of other senior administrative roles in eastern Nigeria, Tunisia and Uganda. On a botanical expedition to Kilimanjaro in eastern Africa, Johnston obtained a land concession that helped draw the frontiers between British and German territories in that... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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