Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell NPG x96410

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alexander Bassano

A lawyer by training, in 1872 Herschell was made a Queen's Counsel. Two years later he entered the House of Commons as a Liberal MP. Although not a frequent speaker, he gained a reputation as a debater that brought him to the attention of Gladstone who made him Solicitor-General in 1880. His first chancellorship, in 1886, lasted barely six months, for in August of that year Gladstone's Home Rule Bill was rejected in the Commons and the administration fell. In 1892, when Gladstone... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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