Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Malcolm NPG D3662

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Porter, after Sir George Hayter

Malcolm began his career in India at the age of thirteen, when he began working for the East Company, the trading body that held the reins of Britain's Indian territories. He held various diplomatic and military positions and became an invaluable envoy of Marquess Wellesley, the Governor-General and a close ally of Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington). Malcolm spoke fluent Persian and published a popular history of Persia in 1815.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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