Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam NPG D15497

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Joseph Grozer, published by William Austin, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

William Wentworth Fitzwilliam succeeded to the Earldom in 1756 and entered the House of Lords in 1769. He was the nephew of Lord Rockingham, leader of the Old Whig opposition faction in the 1760s and 1770s, and when Rockingham died in 1782, FitzWilliam inherited his estates. This made him one of the wealthiest landowners in the country, and he also took up his uncle's role as a major leader of the Whigs. In the Lords, he was one of the leading supporters of... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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