Who Was Who is a book that is companion to A & C Black's Who's Who.
When the subject of a Who's Who entry dies, the biography is transferred to the next volume of Who Was Who, where it is usually printed as it appeared in its last Who's Who, with the date of death added.
The first volume of Who Was Who covered deaths between 1897 and 1915. They were then published at 10-year intervals, and since 1990 at five-year intervals.
Who Was Who series:
Corrections
Errors contained in Who's Who entries are corrected in Who Was Who (the deceased subjects cannot object to corrections because they are deceased). [1] [2]
The first edition was published in 1920 under the title Who Was Who: A Companion to "Who's Who" containing the Biographies of those who died during the period 1897-1916. [3] The second edition, with addenda and corrigenda, was published in 1929. The third edition, with revised corrigenda, was published in 1935. The fourth edition, with revised addenda and corrigenda, was published in 1953. The title of this edition was Who Was Who 1897-1915. [4] The fifth revised edition was published in 1966, [5] and the sixth edition in 1988. [6]
In a review of the first edition of this volume, The Spectator wrote "This book fills the gap between the standard biographical dictionaries and the current Who's Who. It contains the notices, reprinted from former volumes of Who's Who, of those more or less well-known persons who died between 1897 and 1916, with the dates of their deaths. It runs to nearly eight hundred pages of small type. As a work of reference it will be found exceedingly useful, all the more because many of the persons named will never figure in the Dictionary of National Biography". [7]
This volume was also reviewed in The Sketch, [8] The New World, [9] The Expository Times [10] The Illustrated London News, [11] The Sphere, [12] Country Life, [13] and The Publishers' Circular. [14] [15]
The first edition was published in 1929, the second in 1947, and the third in 1962. The fourth revised edition was published in 1967.
The first edition was published in 1941. The second revised edition was published in 1967.
This volume was reviewed in The Spectator. [16]
This volume was published in 1952. This volume was reviewed in The Spectator. [17]
This volume was published in 1972. This volume was reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement. [20] [21]
This volume was reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement. [22]
There is a cumulative index, titled "cumulated index":
This volume was reviewed in Books and Bookmen, [23] The Times [24] and The Times Literary Supplement. [25] Cox said this index is useful. [26]