Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Parker Bidder NPG D31759

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry Meyer, after W. Waite

As a child, Bidder had an extraordinary ability to handle numbers without writing them down, and his father, a stonemason, exhibited him widely as a 'calculating boy'. In 1824, he began work in the Ordnance Survey but left the following year to become an assistant to Henry Robinson Palmer, engineer of the London Dock Company. This was the start of a varied and successful career as a civil engineer. He was a friend of Robert Stephenson, and contributed to the planning and construction of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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