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] in which he wrote over 700 entries. He was 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

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Thomas Seccombe

• 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)

External links

• Works by Thomas Seccombe at Project Gutenberg
• 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. 

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. Wikisource