Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Edmund Anderson NPG D46097

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Faithorne

Anderson entered the Inner Temple in June 1550. In 1577, having already acquired a substantial legal practice, he was made a judge, becoming Queen's Sergeant in 1578. In 1581 he was appointed as a judge on the Norfolk criminal circuit. During that year he tried and convicted the Catholic Edmund Campion and others charged with conspiring to dethrone Queen Elizabeth I. Following this success, in 1582 he was made Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, an office he held until his... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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