The Concise Dictionary of National Biography

The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985 is a dictionary of biographies of people from the United Kingdom. It was published in three volumes by Oxford University Press in 1992.^[1] The dictionary provides summaries of all the biographies in The Dictionary of National Biography, presented in alphabetical order by last name.

See also

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004

References

1. ^ ISBN 978-0198653059.

Further reading

• Lee, Sidney (1920) [1906]. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: from the beginnings up to 1911 being an epitome of the Main Work and its supplement 1901-1911 (second ed.). London: Smith, Elder. http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati00smit#page/ii/mode/2up. 

• Lee, Sidney (1920) [1913]. Concise Dictionary of National Biography second supplement: [http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati00smit#page/1/mode/1up An epitome of the supplement 1901–1911]. London: Smith, Elder. p. 1. http://www.archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati00leesuoft. 

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