Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield NPG D40687

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by and published by John Raphael Smith, after Angelica Kauffmann

Having served in the Army, Holroyd entered the House of Commons in 1780, where he was prominent against Lord George Gordon and the rioters. Holroyd was an authority on farming, and was appointed President of the Board of Agriculture in 1803. He is chiefly remembered as the friend and literary executor of Edward Gibbon (author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), whose Memoirs and other works he edited and published. In 1781, Holroyd was created a Peer... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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