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unusual facts about Oxford Dictionary of National Biography



Anne Jane Thornton

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in 1823 her mother died, and her father moved to Donegal in Ireland where he opened a successful shop.

Bedfordite

In his article about Bedford for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Martyn Powell contends that accusations of opportunism are unfair, and that flexibility was necessary for a relatively small party like the Bedford Whigs.

Bishop's Tawton

Famous residents include Clara Codd, the suffragette and theosophist, who was born in Pill House in October 1877 and who appears in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

The work was conceived in 1925, to follow the model of similar works such as the German Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1912, 56 volumes) or the English Dictionary of National Biography, from 2004 the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (60 volumes).

Edward Baeshe

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Baeshe, Edward (c.1507–1587), naval administrator and politician by David Loades.

Henry Youll

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-861411-X, ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1.

Jane C. Loudon

(Sources vary on her place of birth: according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) she was born at Ritwell House—possibly the same as Kitwell House at Bartley Green.

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

According to James Mitchell in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the "unusual thoroughness" of his education "is reflected in the fluent prose, both of his published painting manuals and of his regular, often entertaining, and rewarding correspondence with patrons".

Real Academia de la Historia

The publicly funded publication has been subject of controversy for failing to achieve the standards of objectivity associated with, for example, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Richard Rothwell

According to Fintan Cullen's biographical entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Rothwell's "portraits are highly accomplished" and "fine examples" include those of novelist Gerald Griffin and Mary Shelley.


see also

Digby Tantam

Tantam, D. (2004) "Ronald Fairbairn" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford

Henry Ballow

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he was probably born on 3 May 1704 in Westminster; educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1721, and called to the bar on 6 November 1728.

Stuart Piggott

Mercer, R. "Piggott, Stuart Ernest (1910–1996)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

William George Fairfax

A. W. H. Pearsall, "Sir William George Fairfax" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)