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AITKEN, George Atherton was born on March 19, 1860 in Barkingside, Essex. Son of late John Aitken and Mary Ann Elizabeth, daughter of William Salmon.
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The Life of Richard Steele, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Life of Richard Steele, Vol. 2 of 2 With the opening of the new year we are at once into political strife. Steele's forthcoming pamphlet, the Crisis, had been advertised frequently in the Englishman; on the 22nd October subscriptions were invited, and after announcements from time to time of the book being in the press, it was stated on the 26th December that, at the desire of several ladies of quality, the publication was put off till the female world had expressed their zeal for the public by a subscription as large as that made by the other sex. A few days afterwards Swift printed as a quarto pamphlet The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphrased; and Addressed to Richard St - le, Esq., 1 in which he ridiculed the forthcoming Crisis and Steele's share in the politics of the day in his favourite octosyllabics. "Thou pompously wilt let us know What all the world knew long ago," that the Queen must be succeeded by a German prince, and that leagues were being formed portending ruin to the State. "Believe me, what thou'st undertaken May bring in jeopardy thy bacon; For madmen, children, wits, and fools Should never meddle with edged tools." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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George Atherton AITKEN
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Studied at King’s College School. University College London.
Career
Entered the Secretary’ General’ s Office, General Post Office, 1883. Private secretary to the Permanent Secretary, Sir Arthur Blackwood, Knight Commander of the Bath, 1890. Transferred to the Home Office, 1892.
Secretary to Reformatory and Industrial Schools Departmental Committee, 1895, and to Inebriate Reformatories Committee, 1898.
Private secretary to Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight Commander of the Bath, Permanent Under Secretary of State, 1896-1901. Member of Home Office Committee on grants to Reformatory and Industrial Schools, 1905.
British Delegate at International Conferences at Paris on White Slave Traffic, et cetera, 1910. Life Governor of University College, 1902.
Principal Clerk, Home Office.
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The Life of Richard Steele, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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The Life of Richard Steele, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Membership
Club: Athenaeum.
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Spouse 1903, Emma,daughter of John Cawthorne, and late headmistress of the Coborn School.
