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HW Wilson
H. W. Wilson could refer to: *Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866-1940), British journalist and naval historian * Halsey William Wilson (1868-1954), American publisher and bibliographer **H. W. Wilson Company The H. W. Wilson Company, Inc. is a publisher and indexing company that was founded in 1898 and is located in The Bronx, New York. It provides print and digital content aimed at patrons of public school, college, and professional libraries in bot ..., American publisher and indexing company founded by Halsey William Wilson * Herbert Ward Wilson (1877-1955), Australian science lecturer and naturalist {{hndis, Wilson, H. W. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Wrigley Wilson
Herbert Wrigley Wilson (1866 – 12 July 1940), known often only as H. W. Wilson, was a British journalist and naval historian. The eldest son of the Reverend George Edwin Wilson (Vicar of St. John's, Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire, and later of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire) and Cecilia Wrigley, Wilson was educated at Durham School and Trinity College, Oxford. Like three of his five brothers, he became a journalist. According to the memoirs of his brother G. H. Wilson, editor of the ''Cape Times'', H. W. Wilson was "chief leader writer" and assistant editor of the '' Daily Mail'' from 1898 until his death during 1940. According to the newspaper's owner, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Wilson was the "mental backbone of the newspaper". From 1914 to 1919, Wilson was joint editor with John Alexander Hammerton of the periodical ''The Great War: The Standard History of the All-Europe Conflict'', published by the Amalgamated Press. The first volume was large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halsey William Wilson
Halsey William Wilson (May 12, 1868 – March 1, 1954) was the creator of the ''Readers' Guide'', the ''Cumulative Book Index'', and the ''Book Review Digest'' and founder of the H. W. Wilson Company, a publisher. In 1999, '' American Libraries'' named him one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century". Biography Born in Wilmington, Vermont, Wilson was orphaned at the age of two, and raised by his maternal grandparents. When he was 12, he moved to Iowa to live with an aunt, and later to Minnesota. He attended Beloit College, and later the University of Minnesota. He and a fellow student, Henry S. Morris, set up a student textbook store on campus in 1889, the roots of what would become the H. W. Wilson Company. In 1891, Wilson first conceived the idea of a regularly updated catalog of books, alphabetized by subject. Wilson saved sufficient money to launch a service in 1898, investing $500 in the hope that he and his wife could enlist 500 subscribers to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |