Frederic Boase
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Frederic Boase (1843–1916) was an English librarian and biographer.
He was trained for the law, but did not make a career of it. He was admitted a solicitor on 31 January 1867, and went into practice at Exmouth. In 1877 he was appointed as librarian to the Incorporated Law Society, retiring in September 1903.[1][2]
His major work was Modern English Biography. It was published in three volumes from 1892 to 1901. These were followed by a supplement of three volumes.[3] The work eventually contained 30,000 biographies of people dying in the period 1851 to 1900.[4]
Notes
- Lloyd, H. F.; Lloyd, Myfanwy. "Boase, Frederic (1843–1916)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37202. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Ralph Thomas, English Biographers, pp. 88–9 (1919), in Notes and Queries, 12th Series vol. 5, archive.org.
- ↑ Waller M. Sinclair , Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society (1906), Preface; archive.org.
- ↑ Obituary, p. 40 in Notes and Queries, 12th Series vol. 3, 13 January 1917; archive.org.
- ↑ Keith Thomas, Changing Conceptions of National Biography: the Oxford DNB in historical perspective, Issues 9-10; Issue 12, p. 21; Google Books.
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