Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Somers, Baron Somers NPG 3223

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt

Having entered the Middle Temple in 1669, Somers won a great legal reputation and was junior counsel for the Seven Bishops in 1688. He also helped to draft the Bill of Rights. As Solicitor-General and Attorney-General he created a new and important tradition by his temperate prosecution of the enemies of the new regime of William and Mary. As a leader of the Whigs he organised the Junto, a close body of ministers which in some ways anticipated the Cabinet. He became a Baron and... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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