Thomas Seccombe (1866–1923) was a miscellaneous English
writer
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and, from 1891 to 1901, assistant editor of the ''
Dictionary of National Biography
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'',
in which he wrote over 700 entries. A son of physician and
episcopus vagans John Thomas Seccombe, he was educated at
Felsted
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and
Balliol College, Oxford
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, 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
* Cousin, John W.
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature'. 1910.
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External links
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A Guide to the Thomas Seccombe correspondence, NC829 Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.
English non-fiction writers
1866 births
1923 deaths
English male non-fiction writers
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