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Biographers from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

25 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Allan CunninghamAuthor · BooksIllustration — Allan Cunningham, Henry Room, c.1840
Amelia OpieAuthor · BooksAmelia Opie (born Amelia Alderson; 12 November 1769 – 2 December 1853) was an English author and abolitionist who published numerous novels in the Romantic period up to 1828.
Andrew MangoAuthor · BooksAndrew James Alexander Mango (14 June 1926 – 6 July 2014) was a British BBC employee and author.
Archibald GeikieAuthor · Maps and atlasesSir Archibald Geikie (28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924) was a Scottish geologist and writer.
Arthur HutchingsPerson · Music memorabiliaArthur James Bramwell Hutchings (14 July 1906 – 13 November 1989) was an English musicologist, composer and professor of music.
Austin DobsonAuthor · BooksIllustration — 1911 portrait of Dobson by Frank Brooks
Cecilia Lucy BrightwellEngraver · PrintsCecilia Lucy Brightwell (1811–1875), known to her contemporaries as Lucy Brightwell, was an English etcher and author, mostly of volumes of short biographies intended for young people.
Charles Heath WilsonArtist · Paintings
Edward John TrelawnyAuthor · BooksEdward John Trelawny (13 November 179213 August 1881) was an English biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley…
Hilaire BellocAuthor · BooksJoseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 187016 July 1953) was a French-English writer and political activist.
Imogen HolstPerson · Music memorabiliaImogen Clare Holst (von Holst; 12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist and festival administrator.
James HoggAuthor · BooksJames Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English.
John AikinAuthor · BooksJohn Aikin (15 January 1747 – 7 December 1822) was an English medical doctor and surgeon. Later in life he devoted himself wholly to biography and writing in periodicals.
John Gibson LockhartAuthor · BooksJohn Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor.
John LehmannAuthor · BooksIllustration — John Lehmann (seated) with sister Rosamond Lehmann and Lytton Strachey
John PinkertonAuthor · Maps and atlasesIllustration — John Pinkerton
Mary ShelleyAuthor · BooksMary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein;
Nahum SokolowAuthor · BooksNahum ben Joseph Samuel Sokolow (Nachum ben Yosef Shmuel Soqolov; 10 January 1859 – 17 May 1936) was a Jewish-Polish writer, translator, and journalist, the fifth President of the World…
Patrick BrontëAuthor · BooksPatrick Brontë (commonly; born Patrick Brunty; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish Anglican clergyman and author who spent most of his adult life in England.
Penelope MortimerAuthor · BooksPenelope Ruth Mortimer (née Fletcher; 19 September 1918 – 19 October 1999) was a Welsh-born English journalist, biographer, and novelist.
Robert SoutheyAuthor · BooksRobert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death.
Samuel SmilesAuthor · BooksSamuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904) was a British author and government reformer.
Sidney LeeAuthor · BooksSir Sidney Lee (5 December 1859 – 3 March 1926) was an English biographer, writer, and critic.
Vyvyan HollandAuthor · BooksVyvyan Beresford Holland, (born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde; 3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967) was an English author and translator.
William CobbettAuthor · BooksWilliam Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey.

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