George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton NPG D5653

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Robert Dunkarton, after Benjamin West

George Lyttelton entered Parliament as an MP in 1735. He was a member of a group of young Whigs known as Cobham's Cubs, and was an outspoken opponent of Robert Walpole. He contributed to one of the most important opposition journals, Common Sense, or, The Englishman's Journal, which started in 1737. After Walpole's fall, Lyttelton briefly became Chancellor of the Exchequer. On the death of his father in 1751, Lyttelton succeeded to the baronetcy and took over the running of Hagley Hall in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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