DERBY. d:ir'bi Man. fb•rtecni Ifrorally.
near the Derwent. Lat. 1). 'Tea ia . municipal borough and manufacturing town. the eapital of 1)erbyshire. England, in the wide and fertile valley of the Derwent. thence navigable to tlie Trent. at the junction of the main branches of the Alidland railway. 129 miles north-north west of London. and 40 miles of Birmingham ( \lap: England, E 4). The are mostly of brick and the public build ings of stone. The most notable of the latter are .111 Saints' Church with a beautiful Per pendiettlar tower 175 feet high. Ilating from the sixteenth century. the quaint little fourteenth century chapel of "zaint .11ary-on•the-Bridge, the Catholic cloirell of Saint \la•y, built hy Pugin, a market hall :ma corn 4.Nolialige. Derby sends two members to Parliament. It water supply, an elect rie•light plant. publie baths and wash-houses, cemeteries, mar kets. and slatoditer houses, ll maintains it I....h ide:it sehool, a free librarv, museum, and art galler•. It also owns ;Intl 'merit t es it s street system. The free ern Millar school founded in 111;• is one of the oldest institutions of its kind in England. There is alit a large
general infirmary. Derby is well situated for manufacture and trade, being connected by canals and railways with a great part of Eng land. The Midland Railway has established large works here, which employ over 12,000 nun. It has manufactures of silk, cotton, lace, hosiery, porcelain, and elastic fabrics. The first silk-milt in England was erected on an island in the Der went in 1715 by John Lombe. There is a resi dent United States consular agent. Population, in 1391. 94.100: in 1901, 105,800. Derby is the birthplace of Herbert Spencer, and Era sin its Darwin wrote many of his works and died here. Opposite Derby the Roman station Dcr rentio. which stood on the east bank of the river. Moran brass, silver, and gold coins have been found, as well as a IZomanpavement.and the foundations of a Roman bridge. Derby was first incorporated in the reign of Henry I. It was the simthernmost point reached by Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, in his attempted march to London in 1745.