Lord Palmerston signed envelope

Henry John Temple, 3^rd Viscount Palmerston signed envelope. Addressed to Broom House in Fulham with a fine seal on the reverse.

Temple was a Tory and later Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister and is remembered for his key role in foreign policy during a period of British dominance. In his first term from 1855-58 he secured favourable peace terms after the Crimean War and put into practice his interventionist foreign policy in both China and India. Reforms in his second tenure from 1859-65 codified and reformed criminal and company law.