Author : Herbert Eustace Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108009270
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M. P. 2 Volume Set: Volume SET by : Herbert Eustace Maxwell
Download or read book Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M. P. 2 Volume Set: Volume SET written by Herbert Eustace Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 describes how Smith helped his father expand their efficient and successful newspaper wholesaling 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 at the Treasury before becoming First Lord of the Admiralty in 1878.
