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Excerpt from The History of Rossall School Men and Women of the Time, for permission to print from that work the biographies of Mr. Besant, Professor Boyd Dawkins, Sir John Gorst, Sir Henry Howorth, Mr. Rowbotham, and Sir George Verdon; to A. E. Wannop, Esq., for most copious and valuable contributions; to the Rev. W. H. Taylor, for the original suggestion of this work and for valuable advice throughout it; and to the Rev. C. C. Tancock for kind co-operation and encouragement from first to last. 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.