- Source: Thomas Seccombe
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. A son of physician and episcopus vagans John Thomas Seccombe, he was educated at Felsted and Balliol College, Oxford, 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.
Mullin, Katherine. "Seccombe, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36001. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
External links
Works by Thomas Seccombe at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Thomas Seccombe at the Internet Archive
Seccombe, Thomas, ed. (1894). Lives of Twelve Bad Men (2nd ed.). London: T. Fisher Unwin.
Seccombe, Thomas (1902). The Age of Johnson: (1748-1798) (6th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
A Guide to the Thomas Seccombe correspondence, NC829. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.