Walford's County Families

The short title of a work, partly social register, partly "Who's Who", produced in Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. It served as a guide or handbook to the British upper classes and landed gentry. Its coverage encompassed many of the most important rich, aristocratic or politically-powerful of the people of the period, thereby serving to document to a greater or lesser extent the "cream of society", sometimes referred to loosely as Britain's upper ten thousand.

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Social register - Who's Who - Britain - 19th - 20th - Aristocratic - Political - Upper ten thousand

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The 1899 edition, was, for example, called Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Volumes in this series are also sometimes referred to simply as Walford or Walford's, the 49th edition of which appeared in 1909. According to the British Library catalogue, the works bearing this title were published from 1860 to 1920.

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1899 - United Kingdom - England - Wales - Scotland - Ireland - 1909 - 1860 - 1920

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