Talk:Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement/List of Writers

Consolidated list at Wikisource:WikiProject DNB/1912 authors.

JP Anderson

Authored the biography of w:Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, a war correspondent. Assisted Ashmead-Bartlett on The Passing of the Shereefian Empire (1910) - see comment at the end of the introduction. Quite likely a journalist ... Charles Matthews (talk) 08:55, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

C. Atchley

Certainly Chewton Atchley, from an ODNB contributor listing. Librarian in the Colonial Office. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:47, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

C. E. A. Bedwell, 1878-1950

There is an obituary on JSTOR. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:57, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Francis L. Bickley

Author of J. M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement. Author:Francis Bickley exists. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:16, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

WA Bone FRS

w:William Arthur Bone. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:19, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

CW Boyd CMG

Will be Charles Boyd, political secretary to Cecil Rhodes, editor of Mr Chamberlain's Speeches (1914). Charles Matthews (talk) 09:25, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

JC Bridge D.Mus.

Joseph Cox Bridge 1853–1929. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:30, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

EM Brockbank MD

Edward Mansfield Brockbank (1866–1959), physician and medical historian.[1] Charles Matthews (talk) 09:36, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

FH Brown

Strong connection to British India: India Office Library, correspondence with Gandhi etc. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:43, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Seems to have worked as a journalist for both The Times and The Times of India. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:09, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

There's an obituary (as Sir Frank Brown CIE), on JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org/stable/41366457. He died 1959. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:15, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Hah. And is Author:Frank Herbert Brown. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:20, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Algernon Cecil

Very likely Algernon Cecil 1879–1953 barrister-at-law. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:46, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Professor Frederick Corder

Articles on music, will be w:Frederick Corder. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:48, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Vaughan Cornish D.Sc.

Vaughan Cornish 1862–1948 geographer, in ODNB. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:51, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Prof. Pelham Edgar

Oscar Pelham Edgar (1871–1948).[2] Charles Matthews (talk) 06:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

M. Epstein PhD

This is likely Mortimer Epstein (1880–1946), author associated with the Jewish Chronicle.[3] Charles Matthews (talk) 06:38, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

W. G. Field

Tricky; the biography of w:Frederick Henry Marvell Blaydes says "private information" so possible personal connection. One suggestion is William Gowland Field, M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (in Venn database), who taught at Dover College while Blaydes was at Brighton. Charles Matthews (talk) 06:54, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

SE Fryer

Don't know. Sydney Ernest Fryer born 1881, Cambridge B.A. 1903, schoolmaster, is possible. Miscellaneous biographies. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:16, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Frank W. Gibson

Would seem to be an Edwardian art critic who migrated from Melbourne to London. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:21, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

GA Gibson MD

George Alexander Gibson, Edinburgh physician, not to be confused with the Glasgow mathematician of the same name. Has a nice picture.[4]. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Francis Gotch FRS

w:Francis Gotch. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:36, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

W. Forbes Gray

Presumably William Forbes Gray 1874-1950.[5] Charles Matthews (talk) 09:36, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

George Grierson KCIE

w:George Abraham Grierson. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:39, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Henry Guppy

Presume w:Henry Guppy (librarian). Charles Matthews (talk) 09:39, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Leonard Guthrie MD

Leonard Guthrie (1858-1918), Oxford classicist, Bart's, paediatrician at Paddington Green Children's Hospital, neurologist at Maida Vale.[6] Charles Matthews (talk) 09:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Elizabeth S. Haldane

w:Elizabeth Haldane. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:57, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Martin Hardie

Martin Hardie 1875–1952, art historian, in ODNB. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:57, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

AM Hind

Arthur Mayger Hind 1880–1957, art historian, in ODNB. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:01, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

RL Hobson

Will be Author:Robert Lockhart Hobson 1872-1941.[7] Charles Matthews (talk) 10:01, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Bernard H. Holland CB

Bernard Henry Holland 1856–1926. [8] Barrister: Men-at-the-Bar/Holland, Bernard Henry. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:45, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

HP Hollis

Henry Park Hollis 1858–1939 astronomer. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:04, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Edith S. Hooper

Confused at present. There is a female pharmacist ES Hooper B.Sc. There is a St Andrews graduate Edith S. Hooper from Erith, Kent. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:06, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Wrote the biography of w:Josephine Butler so will be the Hooper turning up in the Josephine Butler correspondence. [9]. Likely the suffragist. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:10, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

W. W. How

Suspect this is Walter Wybergh How (1861–1932), classical scholar; and also suspect he is the son of How, William Walsham (DNB01). ODNB has no contributions, meaning that they were all rewritten later. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

OJR Howarth

Author:Osbert John Radcliffe Howarth. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:49, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Rev. CH Irwin

Clarke Huston Irwin 1858-1934.[10] Charles Matthews (talk) 11:49, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

TE James

Tough one. Science writer by the topics, likely to be the TE James writing here about the Royal Society in the 1920s, and on into the 1930s. Seems that someone of this name was Clerk at the RS earlier in the century. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:49, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Rev AH Johnson

Arthur Henry Johnson 1845-1927, historian, All Souls College, Oxford. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:47, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

PG Konody

Author:Paul George Konody. Charles Matthews (talk) 12:49, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Previous discussion

John Sergeant

No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

John Sergeaunt

actually John Sargeaunt (1857-1922), classicist and schoolmaster? Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't see this one listed in the lists of 1912 supp list of writers in any of the three vols. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:57, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

L. P. Sidney

No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't see this one listed in the lists of 1912 supp list of writers in any of the three vols. — billinghurst sDrewth 14:57, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

One approach is the ODNB listing of articles: for L. P. Sidney for example it turns up:

• Dale, Sir David, first baronet (1829–1906), industrialist [orig.]
• Wilson, Charles Henry, first Baron Nunburnholme (1833–1907), shipowner [orig.]

The [orig.] only denotes, I think, that the current ODNB article is flagged as "unrevised". And these listings only contain biographies that are revisions. In any case Sidney was clearly some sort of industrial historian. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:15, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

George Smith

No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Done — billinghurst sDrewth 13:50, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

W. F. Spear

No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

W. F. Spear is clearly a civil engineer (ODNB for contributions). He is very likely the one mentioned here as editor of Engineering Abstracts, and is elsewhere identified as (Assistant) Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Charles Matthews (talk) 08:11, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

J. A. Stewart

one of w:James Alexander Stewart (classicist) w:John Alexander Stewart (classicist) or w:James Alexander Stewart (philosopher) w:John Alexander Stewart (philosopher)? Dsp13 (talk) Resolved from ODNB contributions to the philosopher.Dsp13 (talk) 18:57, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

James Taylor

No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

James Taylor wrote the biography of the physician w:John Hughlings Jackson citing "personal knowledge". He was "James Taylor, Hughlings Jackson's student, collaborator, biographer and unofficial secretary" according to this. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:43, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

P. W. W. for Percy W. Wallace

a misprint for Percy Maxwell Wallace (1863-1943), Secretary to the Senate of the University of London? He edited Tennyson, and according to his Who's Who entry was a DNB contributor. Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

misprint or a djvu scan artefact? Might be worth checking on a different output, due to how djvu's are created with underlying jpgs. — billinghurst sDrewth 01:28, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

It is P. M. Wallace in the ODNB, so I agree. The connection is that the biography is for the educator Roberts, Robert Davies (DNB12), organiser for the Congress of the Universities of the Commonwealth of 1912. The Proceedings are at http://archive.org/details/1912reportofproc00conguoft, and P. M. Wallace attended. Seems right to me. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:22, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

William W. White

No idea.Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)