The Times Great Victorian Lives

The Times Great Victorian Lives
Ian Brunskill

Obituaries of the most influential Victorians as profiled by The Times, including Dickens, Darwin, Ruskin, Peel, WG Grace and Florence Nightingale.For over 150 years, The Times obituaries have been providing the most respected and perceptive verdicts on the lives of the great and the good. Scientists, social reformers, composers, writers, sportsmen and politicians…Times Great Victorian Lives examines the achievements of eminent Victorians, from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to Charles Darwin, Disraeli to Gladstone and Florence Nightingale to Sarah Bernhardt.Figures have been chosen according to their importance today and are ordered chronologically. The Times Great Victorian Lives gives a fascinating insight into Victorian history, revealing how the Victorian figures we now consider 'great' were seen in their day.

The Times Great Victorian Lives

An Erain Obituaries

GENERAL EDITOR: IAN BRUNSKILL EDITED BY PROFESSOR ANDREW SANDERS

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u17c1e305-39cc-5d68-b5b0-2c412b4fb314)

Title Page (#uf7ab1253-065e-5c18-935a-2dab379ae16f)

Introduction (#u708a235b-29b7-5251-bef5-1d562abf8a64)

Thomas Arnold (#u7895024f-9285-5658-a4aa-2c1232726f3f)

Felix Mendelssohn (#u19d43b39-636c-50af-8f5c-1e863ad1fbae)

George Stephenson (#uaa462427-1fdd-5b5d-a08b-b71a6f4c0677)

William Wordsworth (#u86707ce9-030f-5db5-9813-e0b212a1698d)

Sir Robert Peel (#uf4b693c0-7e01-5da4-a18e-72310feef308)

J. M. W. Turner, R. A. (#u4dad6b6d-bd5d-5627-97a8-9e4a00cb7f6e)

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (#u2aa6d9bd-b5c0-5169-a924-285313202192)

Robert Stephenson (#u9f094042-e8c2-5cdf-90a0-f9ac27722ebf)

William Makepeace Thackeray (#ucc6c9b5f-dd39-5c1e-b058-b7c0ec6f0023)

Nicholas, Cardinal Wiseman (#uc9309e5f-f3e2-508b-ba1f-3f0a39ee752d)

Abraham Lincoln (#u4f48fca4-97a3-52d6-857f-d07777f5863c)

Lord Palmerston (#ue71c0de0-0ad6-51ac-8c8b-f47b49c655ce)

Michael Faraday (#u1eb682b1-942d-5fd6-9d88-b3db669f6aaf)

Charles Dickens (#u2eb08fb5-993a-54fc-ad9c-42d0f81ba6e4)

General Robert E. Lee (#u2d78353a-e894-5ca7-9a76-42bd768587bf)

Charles Babbage, F. R. S. (#u019d017e-1dc3-51e9-b9b6-3c0d613580d0)

Emperor Napoleon Iii (#ub0f01605-17cc-5a6f-861b-3c71491cc39c)

William Charles Macready (#u83ccc395-c370-5f9d-be6d-53fd69e40f77)

David Livingstone (#ud7997bc9-bb42-538a-b134-d70d3f4cf83b)

John Stuart Mill (#u6a607a32-7b44-5230-8f27-174083f50f4c)

Sir Edwin Landseer (#u81b4b6f7-3561-5070-8890-ecc2de657892)

Harriet Martineau (#litres_trial_promo)

Sir Titus Salt (#litres_trial_promo)

William Henry Fox Talbot (#litres_trial_promo)

Pope Pius Ix (#litres_trial_promo)

George Gilbert Scott (#litres_trial_promo)

John Thadeus Delane (#litres_trial_promo)

George Eliot (#litres_trial_promo)

Thomas Carlyle (#litres_trial_promo)

Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl Of Beaconsfield (#litres_trial_promo)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (#litres_trial_promo)

Charles Darwin (#litres_trial_promo)

Anthony Trollope (#litres_trial_promo)

Richard Wagner (#litres_trial_promo)

Karl Marx (#litres_trial_promo)

Victor Hugo (#litres_trial_promo)

Sir Moses Montefiore (#litres_trial_promo)

Franz Liszt (#litres_trial_promo)

Matthew Arnold (#litres_trial_promo)

George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl Of Lucan (#litres_trial_promo)

Wilkie Collins (#litres_trial_promo)