Dudley, the largest town in Worcestershire, 8½ m. NW. of Birmingham, in the heart of the “Black Country,” with coal-mines, iron-works, and hardware manufactures.
Population (circa 1900) given as 90,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Du Deffand, Marquise * Dudley, Edmund