Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Elliott Burns NPG x4926

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Reginald Haines

Burns rose from a humble background to become a politician and champion of the labour movement. He began working as an apprentice engineer aged ten and he was largely self-educated. He joined the Social Democratic Foundation in 1885 and was elected MP in 1892, but refused to join the Independent Labour Party and moved towards the Liberals. He became a member of the cabinet as President of the Local Government Board 1905-14, and of the Board of Trade, 1914. Burns resigned in opposition to the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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