Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner NPG 2103

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Theophilus Clarke

Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner joined the Navy at the age of thirteen, and was promoted to captain eleven years later. He commanded a number of frigates and warships and served in the American War of Independence (1775-83). In 1786, he suppressed smuggling in the Gulf of Mexico and ordered detailed hydrographic surveys of Caribbean locations of interest to the Navy. In 1790 Gardner was appointed to a seat at the Board of Admiralty, which he held until 1795. He entered Parliament as an MP... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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