Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale NPG x197821

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Rapid Photo Co

Sportsman. Lowther left Eton aged just twelve to take up outdoor pursuits. On the death of his elder brother George Henry Lowther, in 1882 Lowther became the 5th Earl of Lonsdale. As the first president of the National Sporting Club, he donated the first Lonsdale belt in 1909 for the boxing championship trophy. He was also associated with the management of Arsenal Football club. Lowther devoted his enormous wealth, derived from the Cumberland coalmines, to a life of ostentatious pleasure. His fondness of yellow... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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