Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Harry Benson ('Men of the Day. No. 158.') NPG D43816

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Leslie Ward

Harry Benson was a trickster and a fraud who managed to fleece the wealthy out of thousands of pounds. Questions started being raised about the ease in which he operated and the difficulties the police had in tracking him down. When Harry Benson and his accomplice William Kurr were caught and imprisoned, they confessed to their close relationship with the police and how at least half the officers were 'in their pocket'. When the case came to court in 1877, it was revealed that police... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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