Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James Plaisted Wilde, Baron Penzance NPG x12719

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington

Trained in the law, James Wilde was called to the Bar as a barrister in 1839 and was elected as a bencher at the Inner Temple in 1856. He rapidly built a successful legal practice on the northern circuit and at Westminster and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1855. In 1860, he was appointed Baron of the Exchequer and was knighted. Three years later, he was promoted to the Court of Probate and Divorce, one of the most important judgeships in the country.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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