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THE RE-ISSUE OF
The Dictionary
of
National Biography
Edited by Sir LESLIE STEPHEN and Sir SIDNEY LEE.
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The Dictionary contains 30,378 separate Articles, in 30,500 Pages, all, whether short or long, prepared by Specialists of literary experience in very varied branches of knowledge. The exhaustive character of the work may be judged from the fact that it contains Biographies of 199 persons bearing the surname Smith (Smith, Smyth, or Smythe), and of 135 persons bearing the surname Jones. Stewart (Steuart, Steward, Stewart, or Stuart) is the title of 113 Memoirs; Hamilton of 107 Memoirs; Brown (Broun, Brown, or Browne) of 114; Clark (Clarke, Clerk, or Clerke) of 106; Moore (Moor, Moore, or More) of 89; Taylor (or Tayler) of 86; Douglas (or Douglass) of 85; Scott (or Scot) of 83; Grey (or Gray) of 81; Williams of 81; Gordon of 80; Wilson (or Willson) of 80; Thompson (or Thomson, Tomson, and Tompson) of 79; Campbell of 76; Murray of 72; Davies (or Davis) of 73; Howard of 67; and Robinson of 65. There are 407 names beginning with the prefix Mac-; 222 names beginning with the prefix O'; and 137 beginning with the prefix Fitz-.
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