DERBY 



1773 



DERBY 



to Worcester College, Oxford. There he re- 

 mained five years, but was too irregular in his 

 studies to win a degree. During his college 

 career he began td take opium in order to 

 deaden the unbearable pains of neuralgia, and 

 the habit never wholly relaxed its grip on him. 



De Quincey left college in 1807, and the fol- 

 lowing year settled at Grasmere, in the Lake 

 country, to enjoy the companionship of Words- 

 worth, Coleridge and Southey. In 1821, the 

 year in which his Confessions appeared, he re- 

 moved to London. Having begun to write for 

 the famous Scottish periodical, Blackwood's 

 Magazine, he settled in Edinburgh in 1828, and 

 in or near this city resided for the rest of his 

 life. 



The greater part of De Quincey's work was 

 published first in periodicals Blackwood's, 

 Tail's and the London Magazine. His Murder 

 Considered as One of the Fine Arts is a striking 

 example of grim humor; On the Knocking at 

 the Gate in Macbeth and Literary Reminis- 

 cences represent his genius for sympathetic and 

 imaginative criticism. Among other brilliant 

 essays are The Flight of a Tartar Tribe, Joan 

 of Arc and The English Mail Coach. 



DERBY, der'bi, a manufacturing town, cap- 

 ital of Derbyshire, in England. It is situated 

 in the beautiful and fertile valley of the Der- 

 went River, 129 miles northwest of London 

 and forty miles northeast of Birmingham. Its 

 position renders it well suited to maintain 

 itself as a commercial center, as it is connected 

 by river, canal and railroad with all parts of 

 England. The city owns all public utilities, 

 which are economically and efficiently worked. 

 The principal manufactures are porcelain, lace, 

 silk and cotton goods. The works of the Mid- 

 land- Railway Company give employment to 

 over 12,000 of the inhabitants. Derby pos- 

 sesses one of the oldest free grammar schools 

 in England, dating from the year 1160. On 

 the opposite side of the Derwent was situated 

 the old Roman village of Derventio. Here 

 many interesting Roman relics, including coins 

 of brass, silver and gold, have been found. In 

 1745 the Young Pretender, Charles Edward, 

 reached Derby in his attempt to seize the Eng- 

 lish throne. Population in 1911, 123,433. 



DERBY, CONN., a city in New Haven 

 County, in the southwestern part of the state, 

 ten miles west of New Haven. It is on the 

 Housatonic River, at the mouth of the Nauga- 

 tuck, and on the New York, New Haven & 

 Hartford Railroad and interurban electric lines. 

 The population in 1910 was 8,991; in 1916 it 



was 9,655. The area of the city is nearly six 

 square miles. Derby and the neighboring 

 towns of Shelton and Ansonia form one of the 

 most important manufacturing centers in the 

 state. The principal manufactures are ma- 

 chinery, brass, iron, paper, guns and ammuni- 

 tion, typewriters, pianos and piano-players, 

 woolen underwear, hosiery, corsets and pins. 



Near Derby are Sentinel Hill, Lake Housa- 

 tonic and Housatonic Dam, which is twenty- 

 five feet high and a quarter of a mile in length. 

 The city has the Griffin Memorial Hospital, a 

 municipal opera house and two public libraries. 

 Settled about 1646 and known as Paugassett 

 until 1675, Derby was then incorporated under 

 its present name, Ansonia being originally a 

 part of it. In 1893 the town of Derby and the 

 borough of Birmingham, connected by a bridge 

 across the Naugatuck River, were organized as 

 a city. 



DERBY, FREDERICK ARTHUR STANLEY, Six- 

 teenth Earl of (1841-1908), a British states- 

 man and colonial administrator, perhaps better 

 known as BARON STANLEY OF PRESTON, the title 

 he bore during the years he was Governor- 

 General of Canada. The Stanleys are a family 

 which has been conspicuous in public affairs 

 since the reign of King Henry VII. Edward 

 Stanley, the fourteenth earl (1799-1869), the 

 "Rupert of debate," was a brilliant orator and 

 was three times Prime Minister of Great Brit- 

 ain. His eldest son, Edward Henry^ Stanley, 

 the fifteenth earl (1826-1893), was also a prom- 

 inent statesman and was at one time seriously 

 considered as a successor to King Otho of 

 Greece. These men were the father and 

 brother of the sixteenth earl. 



It was natural, therefore, for young Stanley 

 to enter politics, and after a brief career in 

 the army he was elected to the House of Com- 

 mons in 1865. Between 1874 and 1880, in 

 Disraeli's Ministry, he was in turn Financial 

 Secretary of War, Financial Secretary to the 

 Treasury, and Secretary of State for War. He 

 was Secretary for the Colonies in the Salisbury 

 Ministry from 1885 to 1886, and then served 

 for two years as President of the Board of 

 Trade. From 1888 until 1893 he was Governor- 

 General of Canada, a position in which he 

 won great popularity. He had been created 

 Baron Stanley of Preston in 1886, and in 1893, 

 soon after his return to England, succeeded his 

 brother as Earl of Derby. From 1900 to 1903 

 he was again Financial Secretary to the War 

 Office, and then for two years was Postmaster- 

 General. 



