Period: 20th century / Subject Terms: Great Britain -- Biography.

1. Dictionary of national biography. [Second] supplement, January 1901-December 1911, v. 1-3. Edited by Sir Sidney Lee.

Date:: [1920]
Physical Description:: 3 v. in 1. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

2. Memoirs of celebrated Etonians / by John Heneage Jesse.

Creator:: Jesse, John Heneage, 1815–1874
Date:: 1901
Physical Description:: 2 v. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

3. English men and manners in the eighteenth century : an illustrated narrative / by A. S. Turberville.

Creator:: Turberville, Arthur Stanley, 1888–1945
Date:: 1929
Physical Description:: xxiii, 539 p. : ill., maps, facsims. ; 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

4. The Spencers : a personal history of an English family / Charles Spencer.

Creator:: Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964–
Date:: c2000
Physical Description:: xvi, 350 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

5. Eminent Victorians : Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightinggale, Dr Arnold, General Gordon.

Creator:: Strachey, Lytton, 1880–1932
Date:: c1969
Physical Description:: xi, 351 p., 21 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Members of Parliament, 1734-1832, by Gerrit P. Judd, IV.

Creator:: Judd, Gerrit Parmele, 1915–
Date:: 1972 [c1955]
Physical Description:: vii, 389 p. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. A painter of dreams and other biographical studies, by A.M.W. Stirling. With 15 illus.

Creator:: Stirling, A. M. W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina), 1865–1965
Date:: 1916
Physical Description:: xvi, 366 p. illus. 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

8. Aubrey's Brief lives. Edited from the original manuscripts and with an introd. by Oliver Lawson Dick.

Creator:: Aubrey, John, 1626–1697
Date:: 1950
Physical Description:: cxiv, 419 p. illus. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

9. Bunhill Fields : written in honour and to the memory of the many saints of God whose bodies rest in this old London cemetery / by Alfred W. Light. With chart of the ground ...

Creator:: Light, Alfred W
Date:: 1913-
Physical Description:: v. : front., ill., plates, ports., plan. ; 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

10. The outdoor monuments of London; statues, memorial buildings, tablets and war memorials, by C.S. Cooper, illustrated from photographs specially taken by Will. F. Taylor.

Creator:: Cooper, Charles Samuel, 1862–
Date:: [1928]
Physical Description:: 236 p. plates, ports. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

11. Dictionary of national biography : supplement [Twentieth century]

Date:: [1920-71]
Physical Description:: 6 v. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

12. Norfolk church monuments, by C.L.S. Linnell and Stanley J. Waering.

Creator:: Linnell, Charles Lawrence Scruton
Date:: 1952
Physical Description:: xiv, 56 p. illus. (part col.) 22 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

13. Portraits of the nineties / by E. T. Raymond [pseud] with 20 illustrations.

Creator:: Raymond, E. T., b. 1872
Date:: [1921]
Physical Description:: 319 p. : front., ports. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

14. The British establishment, 1760-1784; an eighteenth-century biographical dictionary, by Alan Valentine.

Creator:: Valentine, Alan, 1901–1980
Date:: [1970]
Physical Description:: 2 v. (xii, 960 p.) 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

15. The Dictionary of national biography, founded in 1882 by George Smith. The concise dictionary.

Date:: [1953]-61
Physical Description:: 2 v. 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

16. Lives of the Georgian age, 1714-1837 / compiled by Laurence Urdang Associates ; editor, William Gould, managing editor, Patrick Hanks.

Creator:: Laurence Urdang Associates
Date:: 1978
Physical Description:: xi, 516 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

17. Genial company : the theme of genius in eighteenth-century British portraiture / catalogue written by Desmond Shawe-Taylor ; exhibition organised by Joanne Wright and Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

Creator:: Shawe-Taylor, Desmond
Date:: 1987.]
Physical Description:: [84] p. : ill., ports. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

18. The beaux of the Regency, by Lewis Melville.

Creator:: Benjamin, Lewis Saul, 1874–1932
Date:: 1908
Physical Description:: 2 v. illus. (part col.) 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

19. Minor lives : a collection of biographies / by John Nicols. Annotated and with an introduction on John Nichols and the antiquarian and anecdotal movements of the late eighteenth century. Edward L. Hart, editor.

Minor lives : a collection of biographies / by John Nicols. Annotated and with an introduction on John Nichols and the antiquarian and anecdotal movements of the late eighteenth century. Edward L. Hart, editor.

Creator:: Nichols, John, 1745–1826
Date:: 1971
Physical Description:: xxxii, 2 unnumbered pages, 367 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portraits ; 25 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

20. Dictionary of national biography, 1961-1970 / Edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls, with an index covering the years 1901-1970 in one alphabetical series.

Dictionary of national biography, 1961-1970 / Edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls, with an index covering the years 1901-1970 in one alphabetical series.

Date:: 1981
Physical Description:: xviii, 1178 p. ; 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

21. Noble dames and notable men of the Georgian era / byJohn Fyvie.

Creator:: Fyvie, John
Date:: 1910
Physical Description:: vi, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

22. Personalities of the eighteenth century / by Grace A. Murray (Mrs. Keith Murray) with a foreword by Nigel Playfair.

Creator:: Murray, Grace A.
Date:: 1927
Physical Description:: 230 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:: Reference Library

23. Lives of the Tudor age, 1485-1603 / by Ann Hoffmann.

Creator:: Hoffmann, Ann
Date:: 1977
Physical Description:: xi, 500 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

24. Lives of the Stuart age, 1603-1714 / compiled by Laurence Urdang Associates ; editor, Edwin Riddell, managing editor, Patrick Hanks.

Creator:: Laurence Urdang Associates
Date:: 1976
Physical Description:: xi, 500 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

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1. Dictionary of national biography. [Second] supplement, January 1901-December 1911, v. 1-3. Edited by Sir Sidney Lee.

2. Memoirs of celebrated Etonians / by John Heneage Jesse.

3. English men and manners in the eighteenth century : an illustrated narrative / by A. S. Turberville.

4. The Spencers : a personal history of an English family / Charles Spencer.

5. Eminent Victorians : Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightinggale, Dr Arnold, General Gordon.

6. Members of Parliament, 1734-1832, by Gerrit P. Judd, IV.

7. A painter of dreams and other biographical studies, by A.M.W. Stirling. With 15 illus.

8. Aubrey's Brief lives. Edited from the original manuscripts and with an introd. by Oliver Lawson Dick.

9. Bunhill Fields : written in honour and to the memory of the many saints of God whose bodies rest in this old London cemetery / by Alfred W. Light. With chart of the ground ...

10. The outdoor monuments of London; statues, memorial buildings, tablets and war memorials, by C.S. Cooper, illustrated from photographs specially taken by Will. F. Taylor.

11. Dictionary of national biography : supplement [Twentieth century]

12. Norfolk church monuments, by C.L.S. Linnell and Stanley J. Waering.

13. Portraits of the nineties / by E. T. Raymond [pseud] with 20 illustrations.

14. The British establishment, 1760-1784; an eighteenth-century biographical dictionary, by Alan Valentine.

15. The Dictionary of national biography, founded in 1882 by George Smith. The concise dictionary.

16. Lives of the Georgian age, 1714-1837 / compiled by Laurence Urdang Associates ; editor, William Gould, managing editor, Patrick Hanks.

17. Genial company : the theme of genius in eighteenth-century British portraiture / catalogue written by Desmond Shawe-Taylor ; exhibition organised by Joanne Wright and Desmond Shawe-Taylor.

18. The beaux of the Regency, by Lewis Melville.

19. Minor lives : a collection of biographies / by John Nicols. Annotated and with an introduction on John Nichols and the antiquarian and anecdotal movements of the late eighteenth century. Edward L. Hart, editor.

20. Dictionary of national biography, 1961-1970 / Edited by E.T. Williams and C.S. Nicholls, with an index covering the years 1901-1970 in one alphabetical series.

21. Noble dames and notable men of the Georgian era / byJohn Fyvie.

22. Personalities of the eighteenth century / by Grace A. Murray (Mrs. Keith Murray) with a foreword by Nigel Playfair.

23. Lives of the Tudor age, 1485-1603 / by Ann Hoffmann.

24. Lives of the Stuart age, 1603-1714 / compiled by Laurence Urdang Associates ; editor, Edwin Riddell, managing editor, Patrick Hanks.