In 1880, the year of his birth, between twenty five and thirty million people lived in Great Britain, yet its industry and economy dominated the world, and its Queen/Empress, Victoria, held more than a quarter of its 1.5 2 billion population in thrall through her vast navy and tiny army. Yet like millions of others of his generation, he lived through extra-ordinary times. Benjamin William Badcock, my Grandfather, was an ordinary Englishman.
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