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Name
  
Walter Sichel

Role
  
Biographer

Died
  
1933


Walter Sichel NPG 3513 Walter Sichel Portrait National Portrait Gallery

Books
  
Sterne: a study, Bolingbroke and His Times, The sands of time, Emma lady Hamilton, The Life of Lord Beaconsfield

Walter Sichel (1855-1933) was an English biographer and lawyer, the brother of Edith Helen Sichel, of German descent, born in London and educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford.

He studied law and was called to the bar in 1879. He wrote two law books and made contributions to the reviews. Additionally, he wrote:

  • The Squires [by Aston Ryot (Σ)], an Aristophanic Burlesque (1885)
  • Bolingbroke (1902)
  • Disraeli, A Study in Personality and Ideas (1904)
  • The Life of Lord Beaconsfield (1904)
  • Emma, Lady Hamilton (new edition, 1905)
  • The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (two volumes, 1909)
  • Sterne, A Study (1910)

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