Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

New Legislative Assembly. Newfoundland. (The speaker Putting the Question) NPG D41122

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John ('HB') Doyle, printed by Meifred, Lemercier & Co, published by Thomas McLean

A barrister, Manners Sutton was elected as a Tory MP in 1806. In parliament he served as Judge Advocate General, responsible for judicial functions in the British Army from 1809 to 1817 and was admitted to the Privy Council in 1809. He spoke against parliamentary reform and concessions to Roman Catholics. In 1817 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, a post he held for seventeen years. During the political crisis surrounding the Reform Act of 1832 he allowed his name to be... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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