Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett NPG x86371

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry

Birkett left school at fifteen and started working as an apprentice in one of his father's shops. Having become a Methodist preacher, he was encouraged to go to Cambridge and read theology. Once there, he decided instead to study law; by the 1930s he had gained a reputation as one of the foremost advocates of his time. He was connected with many famous legal cases, perhaps the best remembered of which was the 1934 murder trial in which he secured the acquittal of Tony Mancini... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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