Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir John Barrow, 1st Bt NPG D23404

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after John Jackson

At sixteen Barrow joined a whaling expedition to Greenland. On his return he taught mathematics before accompanying Lord Macartney's expedition to China in 1792. In 1797, he travelled with Lord Macartney to South Africa on a diplomatic mission to settle the government of the new colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Barrow was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty in 1804. In this capacity he promoted British exploration, most notably of West Africa and the North Polar Region, with attempts to find a... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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