Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks of Headington NPG x89284

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry

Franks studied Classics at Oxford, where he later taught and met his wife Barbara Tanner. They left for Glasgow in 1937, where Franks took a Philosophy professorship. During World War II, he worked at the Ministry of Supply, becoming Permanent Secretary by 1945. In 1947, he led Britain's delegation to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, managing American aid under the Marshall Plan. In 1948, Attlee (who thought Franks the ablest man he had met) appointed him Ambassador to the United States, in which... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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