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History of Plymouth from the earliest period to the present time (Chapters I - IX)

Plymouth: W Brendon & Sons (1871) vi, 343 pp.

by

Richard Nicholls Worth

Prepared by Michael Steer

Richard Nicholls Worth (19 July 1837 - 3 July 1896) was a miscellaneous writer and geologist. He was apprenticed in 1851 at the Devonport and Plymouth Telegraph, becoming a staff member in 1858. In 1863 he joined the Western Morning News, remaining with it till 1865. In 1866 and the following year he lived at Newcastle upon Tyne as editor of the Northern Daily Express, but, finding the climate too trying, he again joined the Western Morning News in 1867. In 1877 he became associated with Messrs. Brendon & Son, printers and publishers, of Plymouth, receiving a testimonial of plate by public subscription in Devon and Cornwall for his services as a journalist. Worth devoted his spare time to investigating the history and geology of the west of England. Patient and exact, disliking hasty theorising, he did much for the history, archaeology, and geology of Devon and Cornwall. He was twice president of the Plymouth Association, and in 1891 of the Devonshire Association. This History of Plymouth follows his highly successful History of Devonport. This rare and much sought-after book was produced digitally by Google from a copy in the Harvard University Library collection and can be downloaded from HathiTrust. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

SECTION 1: Chapters I to IX, pages 1 to 181

Contents, pp. v and vi

Commercial advertisements, pp. 345 to 360