Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge NPG x933

© Peter Lofts Photography / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ramsey & Muspratt

A social reformer, economist, civil servant and later Liberal MP, Beveridge is best known as the mastermind behind the Welfare State legislation of 1944-8. The 'Beveridge Plan', formulated in 1942, aimed to tackle problems of want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness, proposing a free national health service, child allowances and full employment.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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