Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Henry Brookfield NPG P171(3)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to Sir Anthony Coningham Sterling

In 1827, Brookfield was articled to a solicitor at Leeds, but he left this position to enter Trinity College, Cambridge, two years later. There he became the friend of Arthur Henry Hallam and Alfred Tennyson. In 1834, he became tutor to George William (later 4th Lord) Lyttelton, with whom he shared an interest in education. Brookfield was ordained into the Church of England in 1834. In 1848, he was appointed inspector of schools; he held this post for seventeen years during which... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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