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Name
  
Thomas Seccombe

Role
  
Writer

Died
  
1923


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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, in which he wrote over 700 entries. He was educated at Felsted and Balliol College, Oxford, taking a first in Modern History in 1889.

Thomas Seccombe Collection of Autograph Letters signed to Thomas Seccombe on the

Works

  • Twelve Bad Men (1894)
  • The Age of Johnson (1900)
  • 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)
  • The Dictionary of National Biography (assistant editor)

    • References

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