Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne NPG x127657

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alexander Bassano

A successful equity lawyer, Roundell Palmer entered Parliament as a Conservative MP in 1847, where he served as Solicitor General and Attorney General. He joined the Peelite Conservatives who in 1859 created the Liberal party. Palmer was appointed Lord Chancellor by Gladstone in 1872 and was created Baron Selborne. His first tenure in the office saw the passage of the Judicature Act of 1873, which completely reorganized the judiciary. He served in the same office in Gladstone's Second Cabinet (1880-5), and was created... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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