An edition of Dictionary of National Biography (1885)

The concise dictionary of national biography

being an epitome of the Dictionary of national biography and of the Twentieth Century DNB

2nd ed of Pt 1 1906, reprinted 1969.

by George Murray Smith, Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee, H. W. Carless Davis, J. R. H. Weaver, Sir E. T. Williams, Helen M. Palmer, Christine Stephanie Nicholls, and Harold F. Oxbury

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An edition of Dictionary of National Biography (1885)

The concise dictionary of national biography

being an epitome of the Dictionary of national biography and of the Twentieth Century DNB

2nd ed of Pt 1 1906, reprinted 1969.

by George Murray Smith, Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee, H. W. Carless Davis, J. R. H. Weaver, Sir E. T. Williams, Helen M. Palmer, Christine Stephanie Nicholls, and Harold F. Oxbury

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The definitive compendium of British biographies, originally commissioned by publisher George Murray Smith of Smith, Elder & co. A series of editors and a long list of contributors followed the format first established by Sir Leslie Stephen. Entries range from one paragraph to several pages per person.

The DNB was acquired by Oxford University Press circa 1912. They added supplements, errata, indices, and a Concise version. Modern versions are published as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

A painstaking transcription from scanned public domain copies is underway at WikiSource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_DNB

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1969

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Oxford University Press

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English

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Pt 1. From the beginnings to 1900,

Pt 2. Being an epitome of the Twentieth Century DNB down to the end of 1950.

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The concise dictionary of national biography

being an epitome of the Dictionary of national biography and of the Twentieth Century DNB

by George Murray Smith, Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee, H. W. Carless Davis, J. R. H. Weaver, Sir E. T. Williams, Helen M. Palmer, Christine Stephanie Nicholls, and Harold F. Oxbury