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Arthur William Holland.
- Formerly Scholar of St John’s College, Oxford. Bacon Scholar of Gray’s Inn, 1900.
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Widukind; Witan.
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| A. W. Hu.
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Rev. Arthur Wollaston Hutton.
- Rector of Bow Church, Cheapside, London. Formerly Librarian of the National Liberal Club. Author of Life of Cardinal Manning. Editor of Newman’s Lives of the English Saints; &c.
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Wiseman, Cardinal.
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| A. W. R.
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Alexander Wood Renton, M.A., LL.B.
- Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon. Editor of Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England.
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Waste.
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| B. E. S.
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Benjamin Eli Smith, A.M.
- Editor of the Century Dictionary. Formerly Instructor in Mathematics at Amherst College, Mass., and in Psychology at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Editor of the Century Cyclopaedia of Names; Century Atlas; &c.
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Whitney, William Dwight.
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| B. H.-S.
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B. Heckstall-Smith.
- Associate of the Institute of Naval Architects. Secretary of the International Yacht Racing Union; Secretary of the Yacht Racing Association. Yachting Editor of The Field.
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Yachting.
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Sir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot, K.C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., D.C.L.
- Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University. Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. H.M.’s Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for the British East Africa Protectorate; Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar; Consul-General for German East Africa, 1900–1904.
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Yue-chi.
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| C. F. A.
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Charles Francis Atkinson.
- Formerly Scholar of Queen’s College, Oxford. Captain, 1st City of London (Royal Fusiliers). Author of The Wilderness and Cold Harbor.
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Wilderness: Grant's Campaign.
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| C. F. K.
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Charles Francis Keary, M.A.
- Trinity College, Cambridge. Author of The Vikings in Western Christendom; Norway and the Norwegians; &c.
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Viking.
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| C. H. Ha.
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Carlton Huntley Hayes, A.M., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor of History in Columbia University, New York City. Member of the American Historical Association.
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Victor III. and IV. (Popes); Visconti (Family).
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Wisdom, Book of;
Wisdom Literature.
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Vienna, Congress of.
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| C. L. K.
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Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, M.A., F.R.Hist.Soc., F.S.A.
- Assistant-Secretary to the Board of Education. Author of Life of Henry V. Editor of Chronicles of London and Stow’s Survey of London.
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Warwick, Richard Beauchamp, Earl of; Warwick, Richard Neville, Earl of;
Whittington, Richard;
Worcester, John Tiptoft, Earl of;
York, Richard, Duke of.
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Charles Raymond Beazley, M.A., D.Litt., F.R.G.S., F.R.Hist.S.
- Professor of Modern History in the University of Birmingham. Formerly Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in the History of Geography, Lothian Prizeman, Oxford, 1889. Lowell Lecturer, Boston, 1908. Author of Henry the Navigator; The Dawn of Modern Geography; &c.
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Zemarchus.
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Charles Walker Robinson, C.B., D.C.L.
- Major-General (retired). Assistant Military Secretary, Headquarters of the Army, 1890–1892. Governor and Secretary, Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea, 1895–1898. Author of Strategy of the Peninsular War; &c.
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Vitoria.
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Wolf, Friedrich August.
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Donald Francis Tovey.
- Author of Essays in Musical Analysis: comprising The Classical Concerto, The Goldberg Variations, and analyses of many other classical works.
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Victoria, Tommasso L. Da; Wagner: Biography (in part); Weber: Critical Appreciation.
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| D. G. H.
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David George Hogarth, M.A.
- Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and Fellow of Magdalen College. Fellow of the British Academy. Excavated at Paphos, 1888; Naucratis, 1899 and 1903; Ephesus, 1904–1905; Assiut, 1906–1907. Director, British School at Athens, 1897–1900. Director, Cretan Exploration Fund, 1899.
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Xanthus; Zeitun.
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| D. H.
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David Hannay.
- Formerly British Vice-Consul at Barcelona. Author of Short History of the Royal Navy; Life of Emilia Castelar; &c.
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Villeneuve; Zumalacárregui.
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| D. H. S.
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Dukinfield Henry Scott, M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.
- Professor of Botany, Royal College of Science, London, 1885–1892. Formerly President of the Royal Microscopical Society and of the Linnean Society. Author of Structural Botany; Studies in Fossil Botany; &c.
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Williamson, William Crawford.
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| D. R.-M.
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David Randall-MacIver, M.A., D.Sc.
- Curator of Egyptian Department, University of Pennsylvania. Formerly Worcester Reader in Egyptology, University of Oxford. Author of Medieval Rhodesia; &c.
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Zimbabwe.
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