Escott, T H S [ Thomas Hay Sweet ] — Great Victorians - Memories And Personalities

T Fisher Unwin Ltd 1916 1st edition. Cloth, VG. 384pp, b/w frontis, 4 b/w plates, index, spine lettering dulled, cloth a little rubbed along the edges. A political biography of the mid Victorian years - with chapters headed : Mitre And Baton - From Wellington To Wolseley - Ambassadors At Constantinople - Palmerstoniana - "Arcades Ambo" - From Sir Robert The Third To Lord Derby The Fourteenth - The Political Adventures Of The House Of Stanley And Others - From St. Mary's Winton, To Curson Street - A Cambridge House Henchman And Oracle - Mid-Victorian Types And Forces In Church, State, Society, And Letters - Royalties, Courtiers, And Statesmen At Work. Thomas Hay Sweet Escott [ 1844 - 1924 ] English journalist and editor.