Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Rowland Hill NPG 838

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Alfred Vinter, after Maull & Polyblank

Sir Rowland Hill came from a family of progressive educationalists, and in 1819 he helped his family to establish a school in Edgbaston based on the ideals of representative democracy and competitive capitalism. In 1837 Hill formulated a set of proposals for postal reform, published as Post Office Reform: its Importance and Practicability. He argued that the existing system was too complicated and hindered the expansion of trade and ideas. Hill suggested a uniform postage rate irrespective of distance that was paid in advance by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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