Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath NPG 6233 National Portrait Gallery, Londonby Jacques Antoine DassierThroughout the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14), Pulteney played a prominent part in the Whig struggle to regai
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath NPG 6233
National Portrait Gallery, London
by Jacques Antoine Dassier
Throughout the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14), Pulteney played a prominent part in the Whig struggle to regain power from the Tories. He became a Whig Member of Parliament in 1705 and held a number of government posts including Secretary at War, 1714-17, before falling out with Sir Robert Walpole, the Whig Prime Minister. From his opposition faction, Pulteney was in a position to take over the government on three occasions, but failed to do so. When Walpole fell from power in 1742,… more
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Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.
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