Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead ('Men of the Day. No. 1049. "A Successful First Speech: 'Moab is my washpot.'"') NPG D45363

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Leslie Ward

Sir Frederick, 'F.E.', Smith was Attorney-General and Director of Public Prosecutions when he took on the brief at the first hearing at Bow Street Magistrates Court as Counsel for the Prosecution. Smith was Conservative Unionist MP for Liverpool Walton (1906-18), and a supporter of the Protestant Ulster Unionists. His own political speeches were described by Winston Churchill as 'verbal treasons'. He had a seat in the Cabinet throughout the War, became Lord Chancellor (1919-22) and Secretary of State for India (1924-8) and was ennobled... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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