Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Thomas Wyse NPG Ax51166

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Camille Silvy

After the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815 Wyse spent almost a decade travelling in Europe and the Middle East. He returned to Ireland to join the campaign for Roman Catholic emancipation. In 1830 Wyse was elected to parliament as a Liberal MP, where he advocated the cause of progressive education. He published his ideas on this subject in Education Reform, or, The Necessity of a National System of Education (1836), which was his most widely read and influential work. In 1849 he was appointed Minister... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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