Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Edward Forster; ('Statesmen, No. 5.') NPG D43369

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Carlo Pellegrini

Politician; from a Quaker background, Forster entered the Bradford wool trade in 1842 and soon took a keen interest in politics and the condition of the poor. He served as a Liberal MP for the city from 1861 until 1886, assuming responsibility for major legislation leading to a national system of education under Gladstone's first administration of 1868. Appointed by Gladstone as Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1880, he resigned office in 1882.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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