“To me truth seems to lie between these two extremes. History is neither, but it partakes of the nature of both.”
About Charles Harding Firth
16 March 1857–19 February 1936
Charles Harding Firth was born in Sheffield on 16 March 1857, into a family whose prosperity, civic conscience, and intellectual ambitions helped to shape his future. His father, Mark Firth, was a prominent steel manufacturer, philanthropist, and public figure whose wealth was tied to the industrial transformation of…