Author: Talbot Baines Reed
Alternate names: Baines Talbot Reed
Born: 3 April 1852
Died: 28 November 1893
Bio: An English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century. Through his family's business, he became a prominent typefounder, and wrote a standard work on the subject: <i>History of the Old English Letter Foundries</i> (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talbot_Baines_Reed>Wikipedia</a>).