Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Charles Willie Mathews, Bt ('Men of the Day. No. 531.') NPG D44580

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sir Leslie Ward

Charles Willie Mathews trained in the law and became a barrister of the Middle Temple in 1872. In 1888, he was appointed as a Senior Counsel and by 1901 had been made a bencher of the Middle Temple. In 1908 Mathews was appointed as Director of Public Prosecutions, a post he held until his death. He was involved in a number of high-profile cases, including the Penge murder (1877), the trial of the prisoner Dr Lampson (1882) and the Oscar Wilde libel suit (1895).

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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