Thomas Seccombe

Thomas Seccombe (1866—1923) was a miscellaneous English writer and, from 1891 to 1901, assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography,^[1] writing over 700 entries. Educated at Felsted and Balliol College, Oxford, taking a first in Modern History in 1889.

Works

• Twelve Bad Men (1894)
• The Age of Johnson (1900)
• The Age of Shakespeare (with J.W. Allen, 1903)
• Bookman History of English Literature (1905-6)
• In Praise of Oxford (1910)
• The Dictionary of National Biography (assistant editor)

References

1. Cousin, John W. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. 1910.
2. Carlyle E.I. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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; New York, E. P. Dutton.

External links

• Works by Thomas Seccombe at Project Gutenberg
• Seccombe, Thomas (ed.) (1894). Lives of Twelve Bad Men (2nd ed.). London: T. Fisher Unwin. http://books.google.com/books?id=ON8rAAAAIAAJ. 
• Seccombe, Thomas (1902). The Age of Johnson: (1748-1798) (6th ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. http://books.google.com/books?id=GZE9AAAAYAAJ.