PREFACE. The reader of a pleasing or instructive book always desires to know something of its author. To satisfy such a legitimate curiosity, we will give a brief biographical notice of Mr. Grote, from whose great History of Greece this Life of Socrates has been taken. George Grote was born in 1794, at ClayHill, near Beckenham, in the county of Kent. His grandfather, descended from German ancestors, founded, in partnership with Mr. George Prescott, the London banking establishment of Prescott, Grote, & Co. Mr. Grote was educated at the Charter House School, London, and in 1809 commenced his course of instruction as a banker by being (iii) |
