Thomas Seccombe

For the British civil servant, see Thomas Lawrence Seccombe.

Thomas Seccombe (1866–1923) was a miscellaneous English writer and, from 1891 to 1901, assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography,^[1] in which he wrote over 700 entries. A son of physician and episcopus vagans John Thomas Seccombe, he was educated at Felsted and Balliol College, Oxford, taking a first in Modern History in 1889.

Works

• (editor) Twelve Bad Men: Original Studies of Eminent Scoundrels (1894)
• The Age of Johnson (1899)
• The Age of Shakespeare (with John William Allen (1865–1944), 1903)
• Bookman History of English Literature (with W. Robertson Nicoll, 1905–6)
• In Praise of Oxford (1910)
• Scott Centenary Articles (with W. P. Ker, George Gordon, W. H. Hutton, Arthur McDowall, and R. S. Rait, 1932)
• The Dictionary of National Biography (assistant editor)