Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst; Apsley Bathurst (when Viscount Apsley and a boy) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst; Apsley Bathurst (when Viscount Apsley and a boy) NPG D7079

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Thomas Watson, after Nathaniel Dance (later Sir Nathaniel Holland, Bt)

Bathurst was Secretary for War and the Colonies in Lord Liverpool's government, 1812-27, and Lord President of the Council in Wellington's, 1828-30. He was an efficient and industrious minister who gave great support to Wellington across a range of military issues, even sending him on one occasion a box of shoes with false soles 'for conveying written intelligence in an unsuspected manner'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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