Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Children NPG 5150

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Archer James Oliver

George Children was called to the bar in 1767, but never practised law. In 1776 he married Susanna Marshall Jordan. The following year she gave birth to their only son, John George Children, and died six days later. Children thereafter devoted himself to his son's upbringing and to local affairs. In 1792 with two friends he established the Tonbridge Bank. The bank collapsed in 1809, but until that time Children provided the money and facilities for his son's interests in science, especially in the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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