Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Beckford NPG D14112

© National Portrait Gallery, London

published by Vernor & Hood, after John Miers

The son of Richard Beckford and nephew of William Beckford, he was born in Jamaica but studied in England, and undertook the Grand Tour after attending Oxford University. On the death of his father in 1756 he inherited four sugar plantations in Jamaica with 910 enslaved people. He and his wife went to Jamaica in 1774 and stayed for thirteen years. On his return to England he was sent as a debtor to Fleet prison.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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