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A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors : containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles / by John Foster Kirk.
John Foster KirkDate: 1891
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Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions / by Edmund Lodge.
Lodge, Edmund, 1756-1839.Date: 1849-50
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Athenae Oxonienses : An exact history of all the writers and bishops who have had their education in the University of Oxford. To which are added the fasti, or annals of the said University / By Anthony A. Wood.
Anthony WoodDate: 1813-20
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Men of the time : a dictionary of contemporaries, containing biographical notices of eminent characters of both sexes. / revised by Thompson Cooper.
Date: 1879
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Letters written by eminent persons in the 17th and 18th centuries : to which are added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, Esq., and Lives of eminent men / by John Aubrey, esq. The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean Museum, with biographical and literary illustrations.
Aubrey, John, 1626-1697.Date: 1813
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Biographia medica; or, historical and critical memoirs of the lives and writings of the most eminent medical characters that have existed from the earliest account of time to the present period ; with a catalogue of their literary productions / by Benjamin Hutchinson.
Hutchinson, BenjaminDate: 1799
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A biographical dictionary of the living authors of Great Britain and Ireland : comprising literary memoirs and anecdotes of their lives, and a chronological register of their publications, with the number of editions printed including notices of some foreign writers whose works have been occasionally published in England. Illustrated by a variety of communications from persons of the first eminence in the world of letters.
Upcott, William, 1779-1845.Date: 1816
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Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes.
Date: 1880
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The history and heroes of the art of medicine / by J. Rutherfurd Russell.
Russell, John Rutherfurd, 1816-1866.Date: 1861
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'Brief Lives', chiefly of Contemporaries, set down by John Aubrey, between the years 1669 & 1696. / Edited from the author's mss. by Andrew Clark.
John AubreyDate: 1898
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Wonderful characters : comprising memoirs and anecdotes of the most remarkable persons of every age and nation. / collected from the most authentic sources by Henry Wilson.
Henry WilsonDate: 1821
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Biographia Scoticana, or, A brief historical account of the most eminent Scots worthies : noblemen, gentlemen, ministers, and others, who testified or suffered for the cause of Reformation in Scotland ; from the beginning of the sixteenth century, to the year 1688 / originally compiled by John Howie; now revised, corrected and enlarged, by a clergyman of the Church of Scotland, and enriched with a preface and notes, by William M'Gavin.
Howie, John, 1735-1793.Date: 1828-9
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Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century : being a series of biographies of distinguished or noted persons connected by birth, residence, official appointment, or otherwise, with the town of Dundee and who have died during the present century / compiled by W. Norrie.
Norrie, W.Date: 1873
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General biography, or, lives, critical and historical of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions / chiefly composed by John Aikin and the late Rev. William Enfield.
John AikinDate: [1799-1851]
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Index ecclesiasticus, or, Alphabetical lists of all ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales since the reformation. Containing 150,000 hitherto unpublished entries from the bishops' certificates of institutions to livings, etc., now deposited in the Public Record Office, and including those names which appear in Le Neve's 'Fasti' / edited by Joseph Foster.
Joseph FosterDate: 1890