Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron NPG D19770

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Robert Walker

Perhaps the most accomplished Parliamentarian officer, Fairfax was appointed Lord General of the New Model Army after his victory at Marston Moor, 1644. His decisive string of victories, beginning with the battle of Naseby in 1645, won the Civil War for Parliament. Extremism alarmed him and he refused to serve on the court which tried the King or to lead the army into Scotland in 1650. He retired from public life until 1660, when he supported General Monck's march to London to demand a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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