“The exercises of the parade-ground have not prepared him for the campaign.”
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…