Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers NPG 2662(26)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir George Hayter

Pierrepont (born Charles Medows) joined the Royal Navy as a lieutenant and commander in 1797 before promotion to captain the following year. He served with Lord Nelson in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars but retired from the Navy in 1803. His elder brother Evelyn died in 1801, when Charles adopted the surname Pierrepont and took his brother's seat as MP for Nottinghamshire. In 1806, his father was created Earl Manvers, and Charles was styled Viscount Newark. He remained an MP until 1816,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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