Old Red Sandstone by MILLER, Hugh - 1875: Or New Walks In An Old Field

London: William P Nimmo and Edinburgh: William P Nimmo, 1875. Hardcover. See description. 20th Edition. Originally published in 1841. DESCRIPTION: Full calf leather binding with gilt lined border to bevelled edges. Five ridged spine with gilt tooled ridges and panels. Marbled endpapers and text block edges. Fold out frontis with 14 other plates. Inscription and prev owners name to fly page, ""W.G. Denison. To Gervase Denison Arithmetic III Class"" dated 1876 Language: English. Book Condition: Good DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages xxxi, 385. Size: 8vo 19cm by 12cm. PROVENANCE: BOOKPLATE: William Beckett. THE HONOURABLE SIR WILLIAM GERVASE BECKETT:1st Baronet (1866-1937), born William Gervase Beckett-Denison, was a British banker and Conservative politician. The son of William Beckett-Denison MP. Educated at Eton College and joined the family banking business, Beckett & Co, in Leeds. After the firm was taken over by the Westminster Bank he joined the banks board. He was also chairman of the Yorkshire Post and proprietor and editor of the Saturday Review. His elder brother, Ernest, succeeded his uncle as 2nd Baron Grimthorpe in 1905 and Beckett was granted the precedence of a barons son and the right to use the style ""The Honourable"". He was elected at the 1906 general election as Member of Parliament for Whitby. When that constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election, he was returned for the new Scarborough and Whitby constituency. He did not contest the 1922 general election, but returned to the House of Commons at the 1923 general election as Member of Parliament for Leeds North, and held that seat until he retired from Parliament at the 1929 election. Beckett was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Green Howards in 1884, but resigned his commission in 1886. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Yorkshire Hussars in 1888. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1895 and Captain in 1898, and resigned his commission in 1901. During the First World War he returned to service as Assistant Military Secretary of Northern Command from 1914 to 1916. He was Assistant Director of the Department of War Trade from 1918 to 1919.Beckett was created a baronet in the 1921 Birthday Honours, as Sir Gervase Beckett, 1st Baronet Beckett, of Kirkdale Manor in the County of Yorkshire.