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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India, born May 24, 1819, the daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, fourth son of King George III., and of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Saalfeld-Coburg, widow of Prince Emich Karl of Leiningen. Ascended the throne at the death of her uncle, King William IV., June 20, 1837; crowned at Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1838. Married, Feb. 10, 1840, to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ; widow, Dec. 14, 1861.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Great Britain and Ireland
1. Official Publications
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Education : Elementary Schools in England and Scotland. Annual Return showing Education Expenditure upon Grants, and Results of Inspection and Examination. 8, London. Annual Reports of Committee of Council on Education in England and Wales ; in Scotland. Annual Report of the Science and Art Department. Annual Report of the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland. Annual Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland. Report of Royal Commission on Secondary Education in England. 9 vols London, 1895. Annual Reports from University Colleges participating in Grant of 15,000 Charity Commissioners’ Annual Report on Intermediate Education in Wales.
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Factories and Workshops Act : Return of the Number of Factories Authorised to be Inspected, Persons Employed, &c, for 1890. London, 1891. Report of Chief Inspector. Annual. London.
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Navigation and Shipping of the United Kingdom, Annual Statement of. Imp. 4. London.
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Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom. Annual. 8. London.
Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions, Annual Statement of. Statistical Tables (Annual) showing Progress of British Trade and Production. Trade of British Empire and Foreign Competition. Despatch to Governors of Colonies, and Replies. London, 1897.
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Economist, The, Banking Supplements, published May and October annually. London.
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Ellis’s Irish Education Directory for 1895. Dublin, 1894.
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Keltie, J.S. (1900). Reigning Queen and Empress. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270299_1
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