T. FISHER UN"WIN, Publisher, 



BUILDERS OF GREATER 

 B R I T A I N ^D'T^" «^ 



H. F. WILSON 



A Set of lo Volumti^ each toith Photogravure Frontispiece^ 

 and Map, large crown 8v0., cloth^ S B. ecuh. 



The completion of the Sixtieth year of the Queen s reign will be the occasion of mncb 

 retrospect and review, in the course of which the great tnen who, under the auspices of He* 

 Majesty and her preilecessors, have helped to make the British Empire what it is to-day. 

 *ill naturally be brought to mind. Hence the idea of the present series. These biographic*, 

 concise Inii full, popular but authoritative, have been designed with the view of giving in 

 -ach CH-r an a>lequate picture of the builder in relation lo his work. 



Tlir sffies will be under the general editorship of Mr. H. F. Wilson, formerly Fellow 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, and now private secretary to the Right Hon, J. Chamberlain 

 »t the Colonial Otiice. Each volume will be placed in competent hands, and will contain 

 the best por*T* ohi;iinahle of its subject, and a map showing his special contribution to 

 the Imp'-nal edifice. The first to appear will be a Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, by Major 

 Hume, the learned author of " The Year after the Arm.ida." Others in contemplation will 

 leal wiili ihc Cabots, the quarter-centenary of whose sailing from Bristol is has recently been 

 srlebniiril in that city, as well as in Canada and Newfoundland : Sir Thomas Maitland, the 

 King Tom" of the Meilnerninean ; Rajah Brooke, Sir Stamford Raffles, Lord CUv«, 

 Eduard Gibbon Wakefield. Zacbary Macatilay, <&c., &c. 



The Series has taken for its motto the Miltonic prayer : — 



** ?6ou 1B5o of CSg free groce ^i^Bf ivitb up f^ts ggrtffonnict 

 £mpire io o, gfortous o.x>X> enSiaCfe QeigQfQ. IBifQ all Qer 

 'fiaugQfer Ssfands a6out (er. stag us tn tgis feftcifte«'* 



I SIR WALTER RALEQH. By Martin A. S. Hume, Author 



of "The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth," &c 



I. SIR THOMAS MAITLAND; the Mastery of the Mediterranean. 

 By Walter Frewen Lord. 



). JOHN CABOT AND HIS SONS; the Discovery of North 

 America. By C. Raymond Beazlby, M.A. 



4- EDWARD aiBBON WAKEFIELD; the Colonisation of South 



Australia and New Zealand. By R. Garnett, C.B., L.L.D. 



5- LORD CLIVE ; the Foundation of British Rule in India. By Sir 



A. J. Arbuthnot, K.C.S.L, CLE. 



RAJAH BROOKE; the Englishman as Ruler of an Eastern 



State. By Sir Spenser St. John, G.C.M.G 

 ADMIRAL PHILIP; the Founding of New South Wales. By 

 Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery. 



SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES; England in the Far East. By 

 the Editor. 



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