Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Thomas Wallace Russell, 1st Bt NPG 3295

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Leslie Ward

Russell, the son of a stonemason, began working in various jobs including a clerk in a soap factory and a sales assistant in a drapery store. In 1863, he was elected Secretary and Parliamentary Agent of the Irish temperance movement and became well known as a speaker. He used the post as a springboard to a full-time career in the movement, opening a successful temperance hotel in Dublin in 1870. Russell entered Parliament in 1886 where he was initially a vocal representative of the Unionist... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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