Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Wilkins NPG D29557

© National Portrait Gallery, London

possibly by John Sturt, after Mary Beale

A Founder Fellow of the Royal Society and first Secretary, 1663-68. Wilkins was a Parliamentarian who prospered under the Commonwealth. He was appointed Master of Wadham College, Oxford, 1648, where he established an experimental science club which was the principle forerunner of the Royal Society. He married Oliver Cromwell's sister Robina in 1656. His political allegiance meant that he was dismissed from his posts at the Restoration but he soon re-established his position and was appointed Bishop of Chester in 1668. Wilkins was an... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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