Mudie, CHARLES EDWARD, founder of the celebrated library which bears his name, was born at Chelsea in 1818. Having started as a bookseller, he established his library in 1842, which became a limited company in 1864, and had 25,000 members in 1890, the annual receipts being £100,000. He published poetical Stray Leaves (1873), and died 28th Oct. 1890. See BOOK-TRADE.
Mudie, CHARLES EDWARD
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