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Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P (Paperback)
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Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries, Volume 1
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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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