Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield NPG D18991

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown artist

Trained in the law, Thomas Parker was called to the Bar in 1691 and entered Parliament in 1705. He served as Lord Chief Justice from 1710 to 1717 and as Lord Chancellor from 1718 until suspicions of financial irregularities forced him to resign in 1725. Later that year he was impeached and tried in the House of Lords. He was found guilty of corruption for taking more than one hundred thousand pounds in bribes (more than eleven million in today's currency). He was required to... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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