Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend NPG D4493

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Simon, sold by Thomas Millward, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

Charles Townshend entered politics as a young man. Despite being a very poor speaker, he led a distinguished career as a statesman and diplomat. He retired in 1730 and spent his last years at Raynham, his house in Norfolk, where he devoted himself to agricultural experiments. He was responsible for a number of innovations including the introduction of large-scale turnip cultivation into England, for which he gained the nickname 'Turnip Townshend'. His second wife, Dorothy, was the sister of the Whig prime minister ... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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