Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Bt ('Men of the Day. No. 594.') NPG D44709

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Leslie Ward

From 1848 to 1859 he was in the Army, serving in the Crimean War and retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1858, while on honeymoon, he won £1,500 in a bet on the Liverpool cup. He quit the army the following year, and thereafter devoted himself to his passion, sport, especially horse racing. During the lifetime of his father-in-law, who had a horror of the turf, Astley raced under the borrowed name of Mr S. Thellusson. He was a popular figure in the sporting community, known... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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