Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

John Taylor Smith NPG x159476

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Reginald Haines

After briefly working for a jewellery business, Smith trained for the priesthood. His aptitude for preaching made him ideal for missionary work, and in 1891 he left England to work in Sierra Leone. In 1896, while working as army chaplain to the Asante expeditionary force, Smith cared for the dying Prince Henry of Battenberg. After personally delivering a message to the Prince's mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, Smith was made her honorary chaplain. He was appointed Bishop of Sierra Leone in 1897, a position he... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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