William Prideaux Courtney (1845–1913) was a British biographer and civil servant.
Writing as W. P. C., he was a contributor to the first edition of the ''
Dictionary of National Biography''. He was the brother of
Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith (6 July 183211 May 1918) was a radical British politician, and an academic, who became famous after being advocate of proportional representation in Parliament and acting as an opponent of ...
(1832-1918) and
John Mortimer Courtney (1838–1920).
As an administrator he worked for the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners were, in England and Wales, a body corporate, whose full title was Ecclesiastical and Church Estates Commissioners for England. The commissioners were authorized to determine the distribution of revenues of the Chu ...
.
Works
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* Courtney, William Prideaux (1894). ''English whist and English whist players.'' Richard Bentley and Son.
* Courtney, William Prideaux; Smith, David Nichol (ed.) (1915). ''A bibliography of Samuel Johnson.'' Clarendon Press.
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English biographers
1845 births
1913 deaths
People from Penzance
21st-century British biographers
20th-century British biographers
Contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography
Contributors to the Encyclopædia Britannica
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