Who Were the Rich?: Vol 5 1860-1869

These international-acclaimed works comprise a unique and original work which provides comprehensive biographical information on all 884 persons who left personal estates of 100,000 or more in Britain from 1809 to 1914, when these sources begin in a usable form. 100,000 is the equivalent of about 10 million today. / Professor Rubinstein is the leading academic expert on wealth-holding in Britain over the past two centuries. / For every person included, accurate information is given about his or her occupation or source of wealth, parentage and family background, education, marriage, children, and heirs, religion, political involvement, and land ownership.

William D. Rubinstein is one of the leading economic and social historians of this generation. He was Professor of History at the University of Aberystwyth between 1995 and 2011, and is now an adjunct professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He was previously Professor of Social and Economic History at Deakin University in Victoria, Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences, and of the Royal Historical Society.