A SELF-MADE MAN.
Mt Mundella is a rare instance of; a working- tman -obtaining -a prominent; position in the (ioverment of his! country. The father of the Vice-; President of the council was an Italian ; his mother was Kng-lish. Hh beg-an life as a street shoeblack, graduated as an apprentice in a Nottingham tactuiy, from beinjr an ingenious toreman was accepted as partner Mr Mundella is, of course, self-educated,, ;and it is in the highest decree honor- ; able to him that he has made so much of his qpportunities. In private life he ds a good brother, and only recently he made a journey to Italy to discover his grandmother, a saarch i-n which he. was successful The Vice- President is , the earnest advocate of the education ; of the people. When' he was ahoy, he was expelled from his school for 1 carrying a flag in a children's pro- : cession on the occasion of the passrug of the first Reform Bill.— World. |
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 77, 10 March 1883, Page 3
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162A SELF-MADE MAN. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 77, 10 March 1883, Page 3
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