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 A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, WJTII BE TAILS OF THEIR SERVICES AND SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. To the name of every Member is added the Constituency or Constituencies which were represented, together with the periods of sitting, and chart pedigrees are also given, showing at a glance the blood relationship between the various members of the principal governing families. The special advantages of this over every other plan will be seen at a glance by reference to the specimen page herewith. England, Scotland, and Ireland will be arranged separately. On the publication of the official return of the Members of Parlia- ment, the AtJicmeuni observed that it was "simply invaluable to students of history" (and so it ought to have been) ; what then, may I ask or expect, will be the public opinion of my plan, involving as it does the identification of individuals (when practicable), adding to their names some account of their public services and short biographical notices as indicated in the specimen page } Chart Pedigrees are also given, showing at a glance the blood relationship between the various members of the principal governing families. England, Scotland, and Ireland are treated as separate works. NOTICES OF THE ^^^^^—contuwcd frovi page Ji^. " If Mr. Joseph Foster's annotated list of the English Members of Parliament should continue as it has begun, it will prove a great work nobly planned and nobly executed." — Pall A/all Gazette. " Mr. Joseph Foster has commenced an enormous work, which must involve an incalculable amount of painstaiving research, and which bids fair to be distinguished by that scrupulous exactness and that rejection of all doubtful detail which have characterised his previous publications. The new work is to be published by subscription in monthly parts, it deals with different subjects, each separately paged, so that on the completion of the huge work each subject may be bound alone, and form a complete volume in itself It will be seen from his programme that the comjjleted work will be an enormous mass of tabulated information on matters genealogical and personal such as the world has not yet seen." — Manchester Examiner and Times.