Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Beckford; John Sawbridge; James Townsend NPG D679

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard Houston

Born in Jamaica, William Beckford's family had the largest sugar fortune in the West Indies. He was sent to England at the age of fourteen to be educated and after studying at Oxford, studied medicine at the University of Leiden. The sudden death of his father in 1735 forced him to return to Jamaica to run the family sugar plantations. Inventories show he owned 13 sugar plantations and approximately 3,000 enslaved people. On returning to England, he entered politics, becoming Lord Mayor of London in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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