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Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P

Volume 1

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  • Date Published: March 2010
  • availability: Available
  • 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.

  • Author

    Herbert Eustace Maxwell

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