Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Walter Huddleston NPG 2724

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Carlo Pellegrini

Called to the Bar in 1839, he gradually acquired an extensive criminal practice. He appeared for the prosecution in the trial of William Palmer, 'the Rugeley poisoner', in May 1856 and was engaged in many other causes célèbres. He entered Parliament as MP in 1865 and for the next decade was Judge-Advocate of the Fleet until being transferred to the Exchequer. Soon after his appointment, the Exchequer was absorbed into the High Court of Justice and the title Baron of the Exchequer abolished. Huddleston sometimes... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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