Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth NPG 4476

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Juliet Pannett

Pannett's portrayal of Morrison as the distinguished statesman glosses over the bittersweet end of his remarkable career. In 1955, he felt betrayed when the Labour party leadership passed to Hugh Gaitskill. He retired in 1959 and accepted a life peerage. Entering the House of Lords as Baron Morrison of Lambeth, he fought to stop the abolition of the London County Council, dying in 1969.
The irony of Morrison's career concerns the paradox that his qualities as a 'fly little cockney' powered him to the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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