Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John ('Jock') Middleton Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan NPG x165540

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Godfrey Argent

Campbell was a businessman in the sugar industry. He was born into a family whose wealth had derived from the slave trade, and could trace a line of descent from a Jamaican slave. He took charge of family sugar estates in Guyana in 1934. He merged the family firm with the larger Booker Brothers, McConnell and Co. and after 1945 managed and became chairman of the combined business, investing heavily in technology and improving workers' housing and health facilities. He argued that 'maximising profits cannot... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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