# Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement

    Background: The 1927 Supplement to the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, covers subjects who had died between 1912 and 1921.

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* Prefatory Note
* List of Contributors
* Memoir of Sir Sidney Lee

## A

* Abney, William De Wiveleslie
* Alcock, John William
* Alexander, George
* Alma-Tadema, Lawrence
* Anderson, Elizabeth
* Anderson, Mary Reid
* Anson, William Reynell
* Arber, Edward
* Arbuthnot, Robert Keith
* Arch, Joseph
* Arrol, William
* Austin, Alfred

## B

* Bainbridge, Francis Arthur
* Balfour or Burleigh, sixth Baron
* Ball, Albert
* Ball, Robert Stawell
* Barbellion, W. N. P.
* Baring, Evelyn
* Barnaby, Nathaniel
* Barnes, John Gorell
* Barnett, Samuel Augustus
* Barry, John Wolfe Wolfe-
* Bartholomew, John George
* Barton, Edmund
* Bashforth, Francis
* Battenberg, Prince Louis Alexander of
* Beach, Michael Edward Hicks
* Beeching, Henry Charles
* Belcher, John
* Benson, Richard Meux
* Benson, Robert Hugh
* Beresford, Charles William de la Poer
* Bertie, Francis Leveson
* Betham-Edwards, Matilda Barbara
* Biddulph, Robert
* Binnie, Alexander Richardson
* Birdwood, George Christopher Molesworth
* Bishop, Edmund
* Blake, Edward
* Booth, Charles
* Booth, William
* Botha, Louis
* Bourchier, James David
* Bowes, Robert
* Boyd-Carpenter, William
* Brackenbury, Henry
* Braddon, Mary Elizabeth
* Brassey, Thomas
* Bridges, William Throsby
* Bright, James Franck
* Brooke, Charles Anthony Johnson
* Brooke, Rupert
* Brooke, Stopford Augustus
* Broughton, Rhoda
* Brown, Peter Hume
* Bruce, Alexander Hugh
* Bruce, Victor Alexander
* Bruce, William Speirs
* Brunton, Thomas Lauder
* Bullen, Arthur Henry
* Burgh Canning, Hubert George de
* Burnand, Francis Cowley
* Burnham, first Baron
* Butler, Henry Montagu
* Butlin, Henry Trentham
* Butterworth, George Sainton Kaye
* Buxton, Thomas Fowell
* Bywater, Ingram

## C

* Cadogan, George Henry
* Calderon, George
* Callaghan, George Astley
* Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland
* Cannan, Charles
* Capes, William Wolfe
* Capper, Thompson
* Carlisle, Countess of
* Carnegie, Andrew
* Carpenter, William Boyd
* Carrington, Frederick
* Casement, Roger David
* Cassel, Ernest Joseph
* Cavell, Edith
* Cecil, Edward Herbert Gascoyne-
* Chamberlain, Joseph
* Cheyne, Thomas Kelly
* Child-Villiers, Victor Albert George
* Clanricarde, second Marquess of
* Cohen, Arthur
* Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
* Collings, Jesse
* Cook, Edward Tyas
* Cornish, Francis Warre Warre-
* Courthope, William John
* Courtney, Leonard Henry
* Cowans, John Steven
* Cozens-Hardy, Herbert Hardy
* Cradock, Christopher George Francis Maurice
* Crane, Walter
* Crawford, twenty-sixth Earl of
* Crockett, Samuel Rutherford
* Cromer, first Earl of
* Crookes, William
* Crooks, William
* Cross, Richard Assheton
* Crosthwaite, Charles Haukes Todd
* Cummings, Bruce Frederick
* Cunningham, William
* Cust, Henry John Cockayne

## D

* Daniel, Charles Henry Olive
* Darwin, George Howard
* Davidson, James Leigh Strachan-
* Davies, John Llewelyn
* Davies, Sarah Emily
* Deakin, Alfred
* De Burgh Canning, Hubert George
* De Morgan, William Frend
* Denney, James
* De Villiers, John Henry
* Dobell, Bertram
* Dobson, Henry Austin
* Doherty, Hugh Lawrence
* Donaldson, James
* Doughty-Wylie, Charles Hotham Montagu
* Douglas, Charles Whittingham Horsley
* Dowden, Edward
* Driver, Samuel Rolles
* Drummond, James
* Duff, Beauchamp
* Dunlop, John Boyd

## E

* Eady, Charles Swinfen
* East, Alfred
* Edwards, Matilda Barbara Betham-
* Edwards, Owen Morgan
* Egerton, Charles Comyn
* Elgin, ninth Earl of
* Elliot, Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond
* Ellis, Robinson
* Elwes, Gervase Henry
* Evans, Samuel Thomas

## F

* Fairbairn, Andrew Martin
* Farwell, George
* Figgis, John Neville
* Fisher, John Arbuthnot
* FitzAlan-Howard, Henry
* Fitzclarence, Charles
* Fitzpatrick, Dennis
* Flecker, Herman James Elroy
* Fleming, Sandford
* Ford, Patrick
* Forman, Henry Buxton
* Forrest, John
* Fortescue, George Knottesford
* Fowler, William Warde
* Fraser, Alexander Campbell
* Fraser, Andrew Henderson Leith
* Fraser, Claud Lovat
* Fraser, Thomas Richard
* Freeman-Mitford, Algernon Bertram
* Freyer, Peter Johnston
* Friese-Greene, William
* Fry, Edward
* Fry, Joseph Storrs
* Fryatt, Charles Algernon
* Furness, Christopher

## G

* Gairdner, James
* Garrett Anderson, Elizabeth
* Gaselee, Alfred
* Gaskell, Walter Holbrook
* Gibson, Edward
* Giffard, Hardinge Stanley
* Gill, David
* Ginsburg, Christian David
* Gordon, Arthur Charles Hamilton-
* Gordon, Thomas Edward
* Gorell, first Baron
* Gorst, John Eldon
* Gough, Charles John Stanley
* Gough, John Edmond
* Gould, Nathaniel
* Gowers, William Richard
* Grace, William Gilbert
* Greene, William Friese-
* Greenwell, William
* Grenfell, Julian Henry Francis
* Grey, Albert Henry George
* Grierson, James Moncrieff
* Grossmith, George
* Grosvenor, Richard de Aquila
* Guinness, Arthur Edward
* Günther, Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf
* Gwatkin, Henry Melvill
* Gwynn, John

## H

* Hacker, Arthur
* Hamilton, James
* Hamilton, Richard Vesey
* Harcourt, Augustus George Vernon
* Hardie, James Keir
* Hardie, William Ross
* Hare, John
* Hartley, Charles Augustus
* Haverfield, Francis John
* Hazlitt, William Carew
* Head, Barclay Vincent
* Heathcote, John Moyer
* Heaton, John Henniker
* Heinemann, William
* Henderson, David
* Herbert, Auberon Thomas
* Herkomer, Hubert Von
* Hicks, Edward Lee
* Hicks Beach, Michael Edward
* Hill, Octavia
* Hodgkin, Thomas
* Hodgson, Shadworth Hollway
* Holland, Henry Scott
* Holland, Henry Thurstan
* Holmes, Thomas
* Holroyd, Charles
* Hood, Horace Lambert Alexander
* Hope, William Henry St. John
* Hopkinson, Bertram
* Horsley, John William
* Horsley, Victor Alexander Haden
* Houghton, William Stanley
* Howard, Henry Fitzalan-
* Howard, Rosalind Frances
* Hughes, Arthur
* Hughes, Sam
* Hume, Allan Octavian
* Hunter, Robert
* Hutchinson, Jonathan
* Hyndman, Henry Mayers

## I

* Inglis, Elsie Maud

## J

* Jackson, Henry
* Jackson, William Lawies
* Jacob, Edgar
* James, Henry
* Jameson, Leander Starr
* Jayne, Francis John
* Jessopp, Augustus
* Jex-Blake, Sophia Louisa
* Jex-Blake, Thomas William
* Johns, Claude Hermann Walter

## K

* Kekewich, Robert George
* Kelly, Frederick Septimus
* Kelly-Kenny, Thomas
* Kendal, William Hunter
* Kennedy, William Rann
* Kidd, Benjamin
* Kinnear, Alexander Smith
* Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
* Kitchin, George William
* Knox-Little, William John

## L

* Labouchere, Henry Du Pré
* Lambert, George
* Lane, Hugh Percy
* Lang, Andrew
* Lascelles, Frank Cavendish
* Laughton, John Knox
* Laurier, Wilfrid
* Leach, Arthur Francis
* Ledwidge, Francis
* Lee-Warner, William
* Legg, John Wickham
* Levy-Lawson, Edward
* Lewis, William Thomas
* Liberty, Arthur Lasenby
* Lindley, Nathaniel
* Lindsay, James Ludovic
* Lindsay, Thomas Martin
* Lister, Joseph
* Lockyer, Joseph Norman
* Lubbock, John
* Lucas, Keith
* Lyall, Charles James
* Lyne, William John
* Lyttelton, Alfred

## M

* M'Carthy, Justin
* McCudden, James Thomas Byford
* MacCunn, Hamish James
* Macdonald, Claude Maxwell
* Macdonald, John Hay Athole
* Macdonell, John
* McDonnell, Schomberg Kerr
* MacGregor, William
* Mackay, Donald James
* Maclean, Harry Aubrey De Vere
* Macnaghten, Edward
* Macpherson, John Molesworth
* Mahaffy, John Pentland
* Mair, William
* Markham, Albert Hastings
* Markham, Clements Robert
* Martin, Violet Florence
* Mathews, Charles Willie
* Matthews, Henry
* Maturin, Basil William
* Maude, Frederick Stanley
* Maurice, John Frederick
* Maxim, Hiram Stevens
* Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth
* Merry, William Walter
* Milne, John
* Mitford, Algernon Bertram Freeman-
* Monypenny, William Flavelle
* Moore, Edward
* Moore, Temple Lushington
* Moorhouse, James
* Morant, Robert Laurie
* Morrison, Walter
* Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys
* Moule, George Evans
* Moule, Handley Carr Glyn
* Moulton, James Hope
* Moulton, John Fletcher
* Mountbatten, Louis Alexander
* Mowatt, Francis
* Munro, Hector Hugh
* Murray, James Augustus Henry
* Murray, James Wolfe
* Murray, John
* Myers, Ernest James

## N

* Nares, George Strong
* Nettleship, Edward
* Nicholson, Edward Williams Byron
* Nicholson, William Gustavus
* Nixon, John Eccles
* Noble, Andrew
* Nuttall, Enos

## O

* Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace
* O'Brien, Peter
* Oppenheim, Lassa Francis Lawrence
* Osler, William

## P

* Palles, Christopher
* Palmer, George William
* Parker, Robert John
* Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings
* Parsons, Alfred William
* Peacocke, Joseph Ferguson
* Pears, Edwin
* Pearson, Cyril Arthur
* Peel, Arthur Wellesley
* Pélissier, Harry Gabriel
* Penley, William Sydney
* Percival, John
* Peterson, William
* Phillips, Stephen
* Plater, Charles Dominic
* Porter, Andrew Marshall
* Power, William Henry
* Poynter, Edward John
* Poynting, John Henry
* Preece, William Henry
* Prendergast, Harry North Dalrymple

## R

* Ramsay, William
* Raper, Robert William
* Rawling, Cecil Godfrey
* Redmond, John Edward
* Redmond, William Hoey Kearney
* Reid, George Houstoun
* Rendel, Alexander Meadows
* Reynolds, James Emerson
* Reynolds, Osborne
* Rhŷs, John
* Richards, Frederick William
* Richmond, William Blake
* Ritchie, Richmond Thackeray Willoughby
* Riviere, Briton
* Roberts, Frederick Sleigh
* Robertson, George Scott
* Robinson, John Charles
* Robinson, William Leefe
* Robson, William Snowdon
* Roby, Henry John
* Rogers, Benjamin Bickley
* Romer, Robert
* Roos-Keppel, George Olof
* Roscoe, Henry Enfield
* Rossetti, William Michael
* Rothschild, Nathan Meyer
* Rumbold, Horace

## S

* Sanday, William
* Schreiner, William Philip
* Scott, Robert Falcon
* Sedgwick, Adam
* Seebohm, Frederic
* Selous, Frederick Courteney
* Semon, Felix
* Shadwell, Charles Lancelot
* Shaw, John Byam Lister
* Shaw, Richard Norman
* Sherborn, Charles William
* Skeat, Walter William
* Smith, Donald Alexander
* Smith, Reginald John
* Smith, Vincent Arthur
* Solomon, Richard
* Somerset, Isabella Caroline
* Spiers, Richard Phené
* Sprigg, John Gordon
* Spring-Rice, Cecil Arthur
* Stanton, Arthur Henry
* Stead, William Thomas
* Steel, Allan Gibson
* Stephen, George
* Stirling, James
* Stoddart, Andrew Ernest
* Strachan-Davidson, James Leigh
* Strang, William
* Strutt, John William
* Sutton, Martin John
* Swan, Joseph Wilson
* Sweet, Henry
* Swete, Henry Barclay
* Sykes, Mark

## T

* Taylor, John
* Tenniel, John
* Thomas, David Alfred
* Thomas, Philip Edward
* Thompson, Silvanus Phillips
* Thomson, Hugh
* Tinworth, George
* Traill, Anthony
* Tree, Herbert Beerbohm
* Tucker, Alfred Robert
* Tupper, Charles
* Turner, William
* Tylor, Edward Burnett
* Tyrrell, Robert Yelverton

## V

* Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Charles Stewart
* Van Horne, William Cornelius
* Verrall, Arthur Woollgar
* Villiers, Victor Albert George Child-
* Voysey, Charles

## W

* Wallace, Alfred Russel
* Wallace, Donald Mackenzie
* Waller, Lewis
* Ward, Mary Augusta
* Ward, Wilfrid Philip
* Warneford, Reginald Alexander John
* Warre, Edmond
* Warre-Cornish, Francis Warre
* Warrender, George John Scott
* Waterlow, Ernest Albert
* Watson, Charles Moore
* Watts-Dunton, Walter Theodore
* Wavell, Arthur John Byng
* Webb, Philip Speakman
* Webster, Richard Everard
* Welby, Reginald Earle
* Wemyss-Charteris-Douglas, Francis
* Wernher, Julius Charles
* West, Algernon Edward
* West, Raymond
* Westlake, John
* Weston, Agnes Elizabeth
* White, George Stuart
* White, William Hale
* White, William Henry
* Whyte, Alexander
* Wilding, Anthony Frederick
* Willett, William
* Williams, Roland Bowdler Vaughan
* Wilson, Arthur Knyvet
* Wilson, Charles Rivers
* Wilson, Edward Adrian
* Wilson, John Cook
* Wolfe-Barry, John Wolfe
* Wolseley, Garnet Joseph
* Wood, Henry Evelyn
* Woodgate, Walter Bradford
* Wooldridge, Harry Ellis
* Wright, William Aldis
* Wyndham, Charles
* Wyndham, George

## Y

* Young, Allen William
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