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Contemporary Biographies, by W.T. Pike, including "The The North and East Ridings of Yorkshire at the opening of the Twentieth Century". (Pike's New Century Series no.8). Published in 1903 by W.T. Pike & Co., 19 Grand Parade, Brighton. The volumes in this series each contain an illustrated section about the county, followed by a long list of short biographies (each with a photographic portrait) of men of the county who were alive at the time of publication (plus a few who had recently died). Each volume has an index to the illustrations of buildings and views of the county, and an index to the biographies.

Showing Ernest William Beckett (1856–1917), Member of Parliament and 2nd Baron Grimthorpe. He was the senior partner of Beckett's Bank, and a justice of the peace.