Victorian Worthies
Victorian Worthies: Sixteen biographies of Victorian men, worthy of honor and significance. An AccessGenealogy extra – includes portraits and mosaic gallery of these men.
Victorian Worthies
Blore, George Henry. Victorian Worthies, Sixteen Biographies. Oxford University Press, England. 1920.
Gallery of Victorian Worthies
Last Updated on October 8, 2013 by Dennis The following images reflect men instrumental during the period titled “Victorian.” They compromise a group of men who were authors, artists, statesmen, missionaries, soldiers, philanthropists, surgeons, craftsmen, historian and priest.
Biography of William Morris
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Craftsman and Social Reformer. In general it is difficult to account for the birth of an original man at a particular place and time. As Carlyle says: ‘Priceless Shakespeare was the free gift of nature, given altogether silently, received altogether silently.’ Of his childhood history has almost
Biography of Thomas Carlyle
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis North-west of Carlisle (from which town the Carlyle family in all probability first took their name), a little way along the border, the river Annan comes down its green valley from the lowland hills to lose itself in the wide sands of the Solway Firth. At the
Biography of Sir Robert Peel
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis In the years that lay between the Treaty of Utrecht and the close of the Napoleonic wars British politics were largely dominated by Walpole and the two Pitts: their great figures only stand out in stronger relief because their place was filled for a time by such
Biography of Robert Morier
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Diplomatist. Diplomacy as a profession is a product of modern history. As Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, the dividing walls between State and State were broken down, and Governments found it necessary to have trained agents resident at foreign courts to conduct the questions of growing
Biography of Joseph Lister
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis In a corner of the north transept of Westminster Abbey, almost lost among the colossal statues of our prime ministers, our judges, and our soldiers, will be found a small group of memorials preserving the illustrious names of Darwin, Lister, Stokes, Adams, and Watt, and reminding us
Biography of John Richard Green
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Historian. The eighteenth century did some things with a splendor and a completeness, which is the despair of later, more restlessly striving generations. Barren though it was of poetry and high imagination, it gave birth to our most famous works in political economy, in biography, and in
Biography of John Lawrence
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Indian Administrator. The north of Ireland and its Scoto-Irish stock has given birth to some of the toughest human material that our British Isles have produced. Of this stock was John Wesley, who at the age of eighty-five attributed his good health to rising every day at
Biography of John Coleridge Patteson
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Missionary. New Zealand, discovered by Captain Cook in 1769, lay derelict for half a century, and like others of our Colonies it came very near to passing under the rule of France. From this it was saved in 1840 by the foresight and energy of Gibbon Wakefield,
Biography of John Bright
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Tribune. The word ‘tribune’ comes to us from the early days of the Roman Republic; and even in Rome the tribunate was unlike all other magistracies. The holder had no outward signs of office, no satellites to execute his commands, no definite department to administer like the
Biography of George Frederick Watts
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Artist. The great age of British art was past before Queen Victoria began her long and memorable reign. Reynolds and Gainsborough had died in the last years of the eighteenth century, Romney and Hoppner in the first decade of the nineteenth; Lawrence, the last of the Georgian
Biography of Charles Kingsley
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Parish Priest. If Charles Kingsley had been born in Scandinavia a thousand years earlier, one more valiant Viking would have sailed westward from the deep fiords of his native home to risk his fortunes in a new world, one who by his courage, his foresight, and his
Biography of Charles James Napier
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis The famous Napier brothers, Charles, George, and William, came of no mean parentage. Their father, Colonel the Hon. George Napier, of a distinguished Scotch family, was remarkable alike for physical strength and mental ability. In the fervor of his admiration his son Charles relates how he could
Biography of Charles Dickens
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Novelist and Social Reformer. In these days when critics so often repeat the cry of ‘art for art’s sake’ and denounce Ruskin for bringing moral canons into his judgments of pictures or buildings, it is dangerous to couple these two titles together, and to label Dickens as
Biography of Cecil Rhodes
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Colonist. The Rhodes family can be traced back to sturdy English yeoman stock. In the eighteenth century they had held land in North London. Cecil’s father was vicar of Bishop’s Stortford, a quiet country town in Hertfordshire on the Essex border; he was a man of mark,
Biography of Anthony Ashley Cooper
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. Philanthropist. The word ‘Philanthropist’ has suffered the same fate as many other words in our language. It has become hackneyed and corrupted; it has taken a professional taint; it has almost become a byword. We are apt to think of the philanthropist as
Biography of Alfred Tennyson
Last Updated on February 10, 2013 by Dennis Poet. The Victorians, as a whole, were a generation of fighters. They battled against Nature’s forces, subduing floods and mountain barriers, pestilence and the worst extremes of heat and cold; they also went forth into the market-place and battled with their fellow men for laws, for tariffs,