Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward Henry Carson, 1st Baron Carson NPG D2660

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alexander ('Alick') Penrose Forbes Ritchie

A lawyer by training, Carson became Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1892 and for England in 1900. He made his name in some famous legal cases, notably the libel action brought by Oscar Wilde against the Marquess of Queensberry in 1895. A fervent Unionist, in 1910 he became leader of the Irish Unionist MPs at Westminster. When the Home Rule Bill was introduced in 1912, Carson used all the means at his disposal to resist its passage. He spoke against the Bill in the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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