Thomas Seccombe
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Thomas Seccombe (1866–1923) was a miscellaneous English writer and, from 1891 to 1901, assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography,[1] in which he wrote over 700 entries. A son of physician and episcopus vagans John Thomas Seccombe, he was educated at Felsted and Balliol College, Oxford, taking a first in Modern History in 1889.
Works
- (editor) Twelve Bad Men: Original Studies of Eminent Scoundrels (1894)
- The Age of Johnson (1899)
- The Age of Shakespeare (with John William Allen (1865–1944), 1903)
- Bookman History of English Literature (with W. Robertson Nicoll, 1905–6)
- In Praise of Oxford (1910)
- Scott Centenary Articles (with W. P. Ker, George Gordon, W. H. Hutton, Arthur McDowall, and R. S. Rait, 1932)
- The Dictionary of National Biography (assistant editor)
References
- ^ "SECCOMBE, Thomas". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1577.
- Cousin, John W. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. 1910.
- Mullin, Katherine. "Seccombe, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36001. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
External links
- Works by Thomas Seccombe at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Thomas Seccombe at Internet Archive
- Seccombe, Thomas, ed. (1894). Lives of Twelve Bad Men (2nd ed.). London: T. Fisher Unwin.
- Seccombe, Thomas (1902). The Age of Johnson: (1748-1798) (6th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
- A Guide to the Thomas Seccombe correspondence, NC829. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.
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