This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age and evokes what was distinctive and interesting about their personality and achievement. The biographies are arranged in a broadly chronological rather than alphabetical sequence so that the reader may easily browse from one contemporary to the next. The index, with its many cross-references, reveals further linkages between contemporaries. Each volume is a portrait of an age, presenting history in a biographical form which complements the conventional approach.

 

This is volume 8 in Whos Who in British History .

This book is aimed at the following children: secondary school , university .

There are 480 pages in this book. This is a reference book. This book was published 1997 by Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd .

Roger Ellis has had a long and distinguished career in education as Housemaster at Harrow School, Headmaster at Rossall School and Master at Marlborough College. He served as Chairman of the Headmasters Conference and was awarded a CBE. He is the co-author of Britain's Prime Ministers (Shepheard-Walwyn, 2005)