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The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985 is a dictionary of biographies of people from the United Kingdom. It was published in three volumes by Oxford University Press in 1992. [1] The dictionary provides summaries of all the biographies in The Dictionary of National Biography , presented in alphabetical order by last name.
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.
Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer, writer, and critic.
Sir John Boys is best known as the Royalist Governor of Donnington Castle in Berkshire during the English Civil War.
Samuel Davidson was an Irish biblical scholar.
Albert Frederick Pollard was a British historian who specialized in the Tudor period. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906.
Sir George James Frampton, was a British sculptor. He was a leading member of the New Sculpture movement in his early career when he created sculptures with elements of Art Nouveau and Symbolism, often combining different materials such as marble and bronze in a single piece. While his later works were more traditional in style, Frampton had a prolific career in which he created many notable public monuments, including several statues of Queen Victoria and later, after World War I, a number of war memorials. These included the Edith Cavell Memorial in London, which, along with the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens are possibly Frampton's best known works.
George Murray Smith was a British publisher. He was the son of George Smith (1789–1846), who, with Alexander Elder (1790–1876), started the Victorian publishing firm of Smith, Elder & Co. in 1816. His brainchild, The Cornhill Magazine, was the premier fiction-carrying magazine of the 19th century.
The Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity is a senior professorship in Christ Church of the University of Oxford. The professorship was founded from the benefaction of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), mother of Henry VII. Its holders were all priests until 2015, when Carol Harrison, a lay theologian, was appointed to the chair.
Sir Patrick MacChombaichde Colquhoun was a British diplomat, legal writer and sculler who influenced early Cambridge rowing.
The Treaty of Uxbridge was a significant but abortive negotiation in early 1645 to try to end the First English Civil War.
Aeneas James George Mackay was a Scottish lawyer and academic, known as a legal and historical writer.
Alexander Charles Ewald (1842–1891) was an English civil servant, known as a historical writer.
William Hook Morley (1815–1860) was an English barrister and orientalist.
William Leist Readwin Cates was an English lawyer and compiler of reference works.
Thomas Greenwood (1790–1871) was an English barrister, academic and historian.
Frederick Warne was a British publisher, founder of Frederick Warne & Co.
Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1847–1911) was an English cleric, headmaster and classical scholar, known as a historian of Roman literature.
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