The New Student's Reference Work/Brassey, Thomas, Lord

Brassey, Thomas, Lord, an English political economist and authority on seamanship, was born in 1836 (the son of Thomas Brassey, the great contractor, whose Life was written by Sir Arthur Helps) and educated at Rugby and at Oxford.  He entered English political life in 1865, and from 1880 to 1885 he was civil lord of the admiralty in Mr. Gladstone’s administration and afterward secretary to the admiralty.  Since 1895 he has been governor of Victoria, Australia.  He is known as an enthusiastic yachtsman, interested in the British seamen, a writer on the British navy; and in 1893–95 was president of the Institute of Naval Architects.  His chief writings are a treatise on Works and Wages; The Eastern Question; English Work and Foreign Wages; and The British Navy (in 5 volumes).