Grand Old Men Of The Empire : The Eighty-fourth Birthday of Mr. Goldwin Smith. 1907

For Sale is a Full Page taken from "The Sphere," August 10th, 1907 showing a photograph called "Grand Old Men of the Empire : The Eighty-fourth Birthday of Mr. Goldwin Smith."

Mr. Goldwin Smith was born at Reading on August 13, 1823. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and became in 1847 a fellow of University College. He was Regius Professor of History at Oxford from 1858 to 1866. In 1868 he was elected to the chair of English Constitutional History in Cornell University, and in 1871 he settled in Canada, where he devoted himself largely to Canadian journalism and to Literature. His pleasant home, the Grange, is situated in the very centre of Toronto. His various works, literary and political, make up a very fine record, but to many he is of interest as a leading figure in now-forgotten controversies in which both Mr. Gladstone and Lord Beaconsfield took part. In addition to his work in biography, criticism, and political essays Professor Goldwin Smith is a poet.

Condition is Very Good.