W.T. Pike Contemporary Biographies Sussex 1910 (78a)

Contemporary Biographies, by W.T. Pike, including "Sussex at the opening of the Twentieth Century". (Pike's New Century Series, un-numbered). Published in 1910 by W.T. Pike & Co., 19 Grand Parade, Brighton. In this copy of the book, the last few pages, including the indexes, are damaged, with some content missing.
The volumes in this series each contain an illustrated section about the county, followed by a long list of short biographies (each with a photographic portrait) of men of the county who were alive at the time of publication (plus a few who had recently died). Each volume has an index to the illustrations of buildings and views of the county, and an index to the biographies.

Showing John Guille Millais (1865–1931), artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He was a son of John Everett Millais