Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Marsden NPG D22585

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mary Dawson Turner (née Palgrave), after Thomas Phillips

At sixteen, William Marsden followed his brother's example and obtained a civil service appointment with the East India Company in Sumatra. He was promoted to the position of Principal Secretary to the Government, and acquired a knowledge of the Malay language and country. On returning to England, Marsden wrote his History of Sumatra (1783). He served as Second, then First Secretary to the Admiralty and continued the private study of oriental languages, publishing Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay Language in 1812 and a translation... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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