Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for ..., including all the titled classes . REVERSE, i HE KA1SAR-I-H1ND MEDAL FOR PUBLIC SERVICE IN INDIA. 18. THE VOLUNTEER OFFICERS THE TERRITORIAL OFFICERS DECORATION (VD.). DECORATION (TD.). (Sketch kindly supplied by Garrard & Co , Ltd.) INTRODUCTION. / • :. merits of brevity, though never openly denied, are not [ways practically acknowledged; and some readers may befound, who suppose that a work of moderate size must be pre- nlionably circumscribed in the amount of information whichit conveys ; that the weight of author
Dod's peerage, baronetage and knightage of Great Britain and Ireland for ..., including all the titled classes . REVERSE, i HE KA1SAR-I-H1ND MEDAL FOR PUBLIC SERVICE IN INDIA. 18. THE VOLUNTEER OFFICERS THE TERRITORIAL OFFICERS DECORATION (VD.). DECORATION (TD.). (Sketch kindly supplied by Garrard & Co , Ltd.) INTRODUCTION. / • :. merits of brevity, though never openly denied, are not [ways practically acknowledged; and some readers may befound, who suppose that a work of moderate size must be pre- nlionably circumscribed in the amount of information whichit conveys ; that the weight of authority is on the side ofrgu dimensions; and that obscurity, feebleness, and imper-? Lion are the necessary consequences of curtailing redundancy r avoiding repetition. To the few who labour under such pre-judices the author of these pages has nothing to offer; while;.) the intelligent reader, no further preface is necessary than ashort statement of the purposes with which this work wasoriginally undertaken, the ends which it has been found toanswer, and the deficiency in our books of reference which it<vas constructed to supply. Accounts of the titled classes had h
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