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Dictionary of National Biography

• Wikipedia: "The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online."
• 1st edition. 63 vols. (1885-1900) and 3 supplements (1901).

• ed. Leslie Stephen (vols. 1–26)
• ed. Sidney Lee (vols. 22–Supps.)
• published by Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, London, 1885–1901.

• 2nd (or re-issue) edition. 21 vols. and 1 supplement.

• ed. Leslie Stephen (vols. 1–9), Sidney Lee. Macmillan, New York, 1908–1909.

Available online at these locations:

• (1913) Second supplement, index and epitome, edited by Sir Sidney Lee.

• (1969 reprint) The Concise Dictionary, Part 1

• Vol. 1-63 + errata, supplement, index

• Vol. 1-66 + errata, supplement, index

• Vol. 1-22, index, supplement

• Vol. 1 (1885) Abbott - Childers

• Vol. 2 (1885) Annesley - Baird

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  Dictionary of National Biography

  Reference on notable British figures

  The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) was published on 23 September 2004 in 60 volumes and online, with 50,113 biographical articles covering 54,922 lives.

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  Hoping to emulate national biographical collections published elsewhere in Europe, such as the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1875), in 1882 the publisher George Smith (1824–1901), of Smith, Elder & Co., planned a universal dictionary that would include biographical entries on individuals from world history. He approached Leslie Stephen, then editor of the Cornhill Magazine, owned by Smith, to become the editor. Stephen persuaded Smith that the work should focus only on subjects from the United Kingdom and its present and former colonies. An early working title was the Biographia Britannica, the name of an earlier eighteenth-century reference work.

  The first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography appeared on 1 January 1885. In May 1891 Leslie Stephen resigned and Sidney Lee, Stephen's assistant editor from the beginning of the proj

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