| E. Ar.* | Rev. Elkanah Armitage, M.A.- Trinity College, Cambridge. Professor in Yorkshire United Independent College, Bradford.
| | Zwingli. |
| E. C.* | Ernest Clarke, M.D., F.R.C.S.- Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Miller General Hospital. Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society. Author of Refraction of the Eye; &c.
| | Vision: Errors of Refraction, &c. |
| E. Cu. | Edmund Curtis, M.A.- Keble College, Oxford. Lecturer on History in the University of Sheffield.
| | William I. and II. of Sicily. |
| E. C. B. | Right Rev. Edward Cuthbert Butler, O.S.B., M.A., D.Litt.- Abbot of Downside Abbey, Bath. Author of “The Lausiac History of Palladius” in Cambridge Texts and Studies.
| | Wadding, Luke. |
| E. C. S. | Edmund Clarence Stedman.- See the biographical article: Stedman, Edmund Clarence.
| | Whittier, John Greenleaf. |
| E. G. | Edmund Gosse, LL.D.- See the biographical article: Gosse, Edmund.
| | Villanelle; Virelay; Vosmaer, Carel; Waller, Edmund; Walloons: Literature; Watson, Thomas; Wells, Charles Jeremiah; Wennerberg, Gunnar; Winther, Christian; Wordsworth, Dorothy. |
| Ed. M. | Eduard Meyer, Ph.D., D.Litt., LL.D.- Professor of Ancient History in the University of Berlin. Author of Geschichte des Alterthums; Geschichte des alten Aegyptens; Die Israeliten und ihre Nachbarstämme.
| | Vologaeses; Vonones I.-II.; Xerxes; Yazdegerd. |
| E. M. W. | Rev. Edward Mewburn Walker, M.A.- Fellow, Senior Tutor and Librarian of Queen’s College, Oxford.
| | Xenophon (in part). |
| E. O.* | Edmund Owen, F.R.C.S., LL.D., D.Sc.- Consulting Surgeon to St Mary’s Hospital, London, and to the Children’s Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Author of A Manual of Anatomy for Senior Students.
| | Wart; Whitlow. |
| E. O'N. | Elizabeth O'Neill, M.A. (Mrs H. O. O'Neill).- Formerly University Fellow and Jones Fellow of the University of Manchester.
| | Vicar. |
| E. Pr. | Edgar Prestage.- Special Lecturer in Portuguese Literature in the University of Manchester. Commendador, Portuguese Order of S. Thiago. Corresponding Member of Lisbon Royal Academy of Sciences and Lisbon Geographical Society; &c.
| | Vicente, Gil; Vieira, Antonio. |
| E. P. W. | Everett Pepperrell Wheeler, A.M.- Formerly Chairman of the Commission on International Law, American Bar Association, and other similar Commissions. Author of Daniel Webster; Modern Law of Carriers; Wages and the Tariff.
| | Webster, Daniel (in part). |
| E. R. L. | Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., D.Sc., LL.D., D.C.L.- Hon. Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. President of the British Association, 1906. Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in University College, London, 1874-1890. Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford, 1891-1898. Director of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, 1898-1907. Vice- President of the Royal Society, 1896. Romanes Lecturer at Oxford, 1905. Author of Degeneration; The Advancement of Science; The Kingdom of Man; &c.
| | Zoology. |
| E. T. | Elihu Thomson, A.M., D.Sc., Ph.D.- Inventor of Electric Welding. Electrician to the Thomson-Houston and General Electric Companies. Professor of Chemistry and Mechanics, Central High School, Philadelphia, 1870-1880. President of the International Electro-technical Commission, 1908.
| | Welding: Electric. |
| F. A. C. | Franklyn Arden Crallan.- Formerly Director of Wood-carving, Gloucester County Council. Author of Gothic Woodcarving.
| | Wood-Carving. |
| F. C. C. | Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare, M.A., D.Th.- Fellow of the British Academy. Formerly Fellow of University College, Oxford. Editor of The Ancient Armenian Texts of Aristotle. Author of Myth, Magic and Morals; &c.
| | Vow. |
| F. G. M. B. | Frederick George Meeson Beck, M.A.- Fellow and Lecturer of Clare College, Cambridge.
| | Wessex. |
| F. J. H. | Francis John Haverfield, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A.- Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford. Fellow of Brasenose College. Formerly Censor, Student, Tutor and Librarian of Christ Church. Ford’s Lecturer, 1906-1907. Fellow of the British Academy. Author of Monographs on Roman History, especially Roman Britain; &c.
| | Watling Street. |
| F. Ke. | Frank Keiper, A.M., B.L., M.E.- Manager of the United States Voting Machine Company. Formerly Assistant Examiner, United States Patent Office.
| | Voting Machines. |