Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir George Henry Lewis, Joseph Gillis Biggar and four other members of the Council NPG 2282

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Sydney Prior Hall

An Irish Nationalist politician who was prominent in the Home Rule League and served as an Irish Parliamentary Party MP from 1874 until his death. Joe Biggar is perhaps best remembered for introducing in 1874 a new, more aggressive form of obstructionism in the House of Commons than had previously existed. Obstructionism refers to the deliberate interference with the progress of legislation, and can be achieved in a number of ways. In Biggar's case it involved giving long speeches to delay passage (also known as... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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