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) (1894)
  • The Age of Johnson (1899)
  • (with John William Allen (1865–1944), 1903)
  • (with W. Robertson Nicoll, 1905–6)
  • (1910)
  • (with W. P. Ker, George Gordon, W. H. Hutton, Arthur McDowall, and R. S. Rait, 1932)
  • The Dictionary of National Biography (assistant editor)
  • Cousin, John W. . 1910.
  • Mullin, Katherine. "Seccombe, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:. (Subscription, access or 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

  • at Project Gutenberg
  • at the Internet Archive
  • Seccombe, Thomas, ed. (1894). (2nd ed.). London: T. Fisher Unwin.
  • Seccombe, Thomas (1902). (6th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
  • . Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.