Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Chalmers NPG D32816

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by James Faed the Elder, after John Faed

Chalmers was ordained as a minister in 1803. After reading Wilberforce's Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System (1797), he adopted the evangelical position. His evangelical preaching made him famous in Glasgow. In 1823, he took the Chair of Moral Philosophy at St. Andrews University, later becoming Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh University. He gained recognition as a leader of the Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland, who desired independence for the Church. The conflict led to the Disruption of 1843, when a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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