The great, the good, and the very, very bad from Worcestershire’s past live again in this informative, lively and entertaining collection of more than 700 mini-biographies of county men and women from across the centuries.All of human life is here, from composers to conmen, from military men – and a woman – to medical pioneers and nineteenth-century manufacturers, from daring explorers to one of the great entertainers of the music hall era.The county can claim many more who were either born or lived here for a major part of their lives, who made their mark with colourful enterprise or diligent toil. All of them called Worcestershire home and their contribution to its rich and varied history is remembered here in this well-researched and engaging book.

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Excerpt from Short Biographies of the Worthies of Worcestershire It was originally intended that short notices of "Persons Eminent in Art, Literature, and Science" should form part of the Victoria History of Worcestershire; but in its progress this splondid work attained such largo dimensions that the biographical section had to be eliminated, and the materials already collected have been used partly for this present volume. The Dictionary of National Biography has set up for all our eminent men and women a monument more durable than marble. The aim of this little book is to do the same on a small scale for Worcestershire; to satisfy the commemorative instinct of humanity, and to serve as a book of reference. The majority of the names are already dealt with at some length in the sixty-five volumes of the D.N.B., which should be found on the shelves of every Public Library. An asterisk prefixed to a name refers the reader to this wonderful work; and only such facts, chiefly local, are given here, as will make the outline complete in itself. Other sources of information to which we are largely indebted are J. Chambers' Biography of Worcester (1820), W. R. Williams' Members for Worcestershire (1897), Smith and Onslow's Diocesan History of Worcester (1883), the Victoria History, Nash's Worcestershire, T. C. Tuherville's Worcestershire in the 19th Century, Complete Peerage, by G.E.C., Berrow's Worcester Journal, Worcester Herald, Ac. The Editors desire also to acknowledge the assistance and information given by Mr. John Amphlett, M.A., F.S.A., Mr. T. A. C. Attwood, M.A., Mr. W. F. Baillie, Mrs. Baldwyn-Childe, Mr. E. A. B. Barnard, Lieut.Chas. Saville Broome, R.N., Mr. John S. Bumpus, M.A., Mr. John Cotton, F.R.I.B.A., Rev. James Davenport, M.A., Rev. T. G. Dixon, M.A., Canon E. R. Dowdoswoll, M.A., Mr. Thomas Duckworth, Miss Ethel Gabb, Rev. R. G. Griffiths, M.A., Mr. L. W. Hadley, Major J H. Hanhury, Prebendary F. W. Joyce, M.A., Mrs. Alice Parker, Mr. T. H. G. Pearson, M.A., Canon David Robertson, M.A., Mr. A. A. Rollason, Rev. G. A. K. Simpson, M.A., Major Edmund W. Tennant, Mr. J. Willis-Bund, M.A., F.S.A., and others. An anonymous contributor ("A Reader") to the Worcester Journal deserves our special acknowledgments. The Editors of the County newspapers also rendered much help by printing the preliminary list of names. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.