Thomas Spencer Baynes
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| Occupation(s) | philosopher, literary critic |
Thomas Spencer Baynes (24 March 1823 – 31 May 1887) was an English
Life
Baynes was born in
After working as editor of a newspaper in Edinburgh, and after an interval of rest rendered necessary by a breakdown in health, Baynes resumed journalistic work in 1858 as assistant editor of the
In 1873, he was appointed to superintend the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, a task with which, after 1880, he was assisted by William Robertson Smith.[2] Baynes was the first English-born editor of the Britannica; all earlier editors were Scottish.
Notes
- ^ "Thomas Spencer Baynes | British scholar and editor | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
- ^ a b c Cousin 1910.
References
Cousin, John William (1910), "Baynes, Thomas Spencer", A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Garnett, Richard (1901). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Crawford, Robert. "Baynes, Thomas Spencer (1823–1887)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1783. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
External links
- Works by or about Thomas Spencer Baynes at Wikisource
- 1902 Encyclopedia - Articles and illustrations from Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th Edition, of which Baynes was joint editor
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