Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P
Volume 1
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- Author: Herbert Eustace Maxwell
- Date Published: March 2010
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108009232
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This is a lively two-volume biography, first published in 1893, of the influential Victorian businessman and politician W. H. Smith (1825–1891), whose father and uncle established the well-known stationery and bookselling business. The author, Herbert Maxwell (1845-1932), was a Scottish essayist and Conservative Member of Parliament who greatly admired Smith's human qualities and had access to his personal papers. Volume 1 documents the foundation of the newspaper wholesaling business, Smith's education and his thwarted desire to become a priest. It describes how Smith helped his father expand their efficient and successful business to include a chain of railway station news- and bookstalls and a lending library, as well as becoming sole agents for The Times in 1854. Smith went into Parliament in 1868, and worked for several years at the Treasury. Volume 1 ends with his tour to Cyprus in 1878 as First Lord of the Admiralty.
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- Date Published: March 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108009232
- length: 392 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. 1784–1846
2. 1846–1854
3. 1854–1893
4. 1855–1865
5. 1865–1868
6. 1868–1869
7. 1870–1871
8. 1872
9. 1873–1874
10. 1874–1876
11. 1876–1878
12. 1878.
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