Note 17 — Chapter IV · MODERN HISTORY OF BEER.

Michael Thomas Bass, the senior member of Parliament for Derby, is best known as the largest brewer in the world. He is now over eighty years old, and has been engaged in the brewery business founded by his grandfather for about sixty-two years. He was educated at the Buxton Grammar School, and has supplemented this early instruction by a course of reading that leaves him not at all behind many University men in the matter of scholarly attainments. He has always been noted for the efficient discharge of his public and private duties, and has for more than thirty years represented the old town of Derby as senior member of Parliament. His public and private gifts have been frequent and munificent, the last of importance being a free library for the town of Derby.