Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder, 3rd Earl of Harrowby ('Statesmen. No. 478.') NPG D44254

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Carlo Pellegrini

Dudley Ryder entered Parliament as an MP in 1856, lost his seat four years later and did not return to the Commons until 1868. From the start of his time in politics, he had stressed the importance of education, not a Conservative political priority at the time, and he was a member of the first London school Board of Education. He was also involved in drafting the Education Bill of 1876. Ryder was said to come 'closer than anyone in the Conservative party to embodying... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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