<p>A "Who's Temporarily Who," of people who have been rewarded, usually for political loyalty, with a low-level British title. Presents half-page biographies of all 562 (living and dead) life peers created 1958-89, and 30 Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (Law Lords), along with such information as how much they inherited, their various addresses, and political affiliation (mostly), but does not (as does The Complete peerage ) pass judgement on the quality of their characters. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

The Biographical Dictionary of Life Peers

William D. Rubinstein

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PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Who Were the Rich? A Biographical Directory of British Wealth-Holders, Vol. 1: 1809-39

Social Affairs Unit

<p>We are now publishing hardcover revised editions of the first two volumes of Professor William D. Rubinstein’s standard works of research and reference on Who Were the Rich? Several entirely new volumes will also follow shortly. EER envisages issuing a new volume every six months. The following volumes will cover: 1840-1914. These volumes comprise a unique and original work which provides comprehensive biographical information on all 884 persons who left personal estates of £100,000 or more in Britain from 1809, when these sources begin in a usable form. £100,000 is the equivalent of about £10 million today. This work by Professor William D. Rubinstein, the leading academic expert on wealth-holding in Britain over the past two centuries, comprises a series of volumes which will provide similar information on all persons leaving £100,000 or more down to 1914. For every person included, accurate information is given about his or her occupation or source of wealth, parentage and family background, education, marriage, children, and heirs, religion, political involvement, and land ownership. Virtually none of this information has ever been compiled before, and this work provides a unique, accurate, and realistic of the wealthy elite in Britain during and just after the Napoleonic Wars. The picture which emerges is a surprisingly conservative one, with wealth centred not in the new industries of the Industrial Revolution, but in London, especially in the City of London, as well as in the landed aristocracy, in fortunes made in the east and West Indies, and riches derived from "Old Corruption," by government employees and placemen. The Introduction to this work provides useful summaries of the main trends. This set of volumes will be of considerable interest to economic, social, and political historians, to genealogists and family historians, and to local historians and historians of local communities.</p>

Who Were the Rich?: 1809-1824 (Volume 1)

Business & Money

Economics

Edward Everett Root Publishers

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