Bagehot, Walter
(male)
02/03/1826 - 03/24/1877
English
University College, London
Political commentator, economist, and journalist; Unitarian; wrote for The Inquirer, The Economist, and other periodicals; cofounder of the National Review. See Boase I: 123, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Conder, Claude Reignier
(male)
12/29/1848 - 02/16/1910
English
University College, London
Soldier, explorer, and antiquarian; served in Palestine and in Egypt; wrote Heth and Moab, Explorations in Syria in 1881 and 1882 (1883), The Hittites and their Language (1898), and other works.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Freshfield, Douglas William
(male)
04/27/1845 - 02/09/1934
English
University College, London
Lawyer, mountaineer and author; edited the Alpine Journal
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Furnivall, Frederick James
(male)
02/04/1825 - 07/02/1910
English
Trinity Hall, Cambridge; University College, London
Philologist; editor of the Oxford English Dictionary; edited parallel text edition of The Canterbury Tales; taught at London Working Men's College.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Goldsmid, Sir Julian
(male)
10/08/1838 - 01/07/1896
English
University College, London
Lawyer, businessman, and liberal politician; M.P.; succeeded to his uncle's Baronetcy in 1878.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Hervey, Robert Kibble
(male)
06/15/1829 - 1904
English
University College, London
Playwright miscellaneous writer, and barrister; contributed to The Theatre; wrote the farce Good Business (1887), The Sapphire Ring. Thanks to Levana Taylor for life dates and Hervey's full name.
Hutton, Richard Holt
(male)
06/02/1826 - 09/09/1897
English
University College, London
Critic, theologian, and journalist; edited The Inquirer, the National Review; editor and proprietor of The Spectator; wrote The Incarnation and Principles of Evidence (1862, Essays Theological and Literary (1871), and other works. See Boase V: 738-9, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Lester, Horace Frank
(male)
1853 - 1896
English
University College, London
Barrister; wrote legal works and some fiction; contributed to Punch.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Nutt, Alfred Trübner
(male)
11/22/1856 - 05/21/1910
English
University College, London
Publisher and folklorist; founded The Folk-Lore Journal. See ODNB.
Quain, John Richard
(male)
1816 - 09/12/1876
Irish
University of Gottingen; University College, London
Barrister and Jurist; judge of the court of Queen's Bench; wrote The New System of Common Law Procedure (1852). See Boase II: 1685, ODNB.
Scoffern, Dr. John
(male)
10/09/1814 - 02/14/1882
English
University College, London
Scientist and author; wrote works on the manufacture of sugar, outlines of botany, practical chemistry, metal-working, meteorology, weaponry, etc. See Boase III: 445.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Stephens, George
(male)
12/13/1813 - 08/09/1895
English
University College, London
Teacher of English in Stockholm; lectured at Univ of Copenhagen; wrote Revenge, or a Woman's Love (1857), works on Runic monuments, and many other texts. See Boase III: 730, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Yule, Sir Henry
(male)
05/01/1820 - 12/30/1889
Scottish
University College, London
Orientalist and soldier; served in Bengal Engineers; published travel books.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)