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

Consolidated list at WikiProject DNB/1912 authors.

JP Anderson
Authored the biography of 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
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. 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 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). 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. Charles Matthews (talk) 06:38, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

W. G. Field
Tricky; the biography of 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.. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

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

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

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

Henry Guppy
Presume 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. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:53, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Elizabeth S. Haldane
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. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:01, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Bernard H. Holland CB
Bernard Henry Holland 1856–1926. 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 Josephine Butler so will be the Hooper turning up in the Josephine Butler correspondence. . 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. 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)

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)
 * ✅ — 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 James Alexander Stewart (classicist) John Alexander Stewart (classicist) or James Alexander Stewart (philosopher) 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 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)