British journalist and historian (1856–1905)

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The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present / by Wm. Laird Clowes. Assisted by Sir Clements Markham, Captain A.T. Mahan, U.S.N., H.W. Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, etc.

Bibliotheca arcana : seu Catalogus librorum penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised / by Speculator Morum.

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William Laird Clowes

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The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present / by Wm. Laird Clowes. Assisted by Sir Clements Markham, Captain A.T. Mahan, U.S.N., H.W. Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, etc.

Bibliotheca arcana : seu Catalogus librorum penetralium, being brief notices of books that have been secretly printed prohibited by law, seized, anathematised, burnt or Bowdlerised / by Speculator Morum.