LC control no. | n 79114258 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904 |
Located | Cambridge, England London, England |
Birth date | 1832-11-28 |
Death date | 1904-02-22 |
Field of activity | Mountaineering Mathematics Criticism Biography Publishers and publishing |
Affiliation | Trinity Hall (University of Cambridge) Church of England Alpine Club (London, England) |
Profession or occupation | College teachers Clergy Mountaineers Critics Essayists Biographers Editors |
Found in | His The playground of Europe ... 1871. The life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen ... 1895: t.p. (his brother Leslie Stephen) Concise DNB (Stephen, Sir Leslie, 1832-1904) Dictionary of national biography, 1998: t.p. (Sir Leslie Stephen) Oxford DNB online, 11 June 2013 (Sir Leslie Stephen, author, literary critic, and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography; born 28 November 1832; he was for a decade prominent in the life of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was ordained a priest (later renounced); aside from his pastoral work, he taught some mathematics, and coached and participated in rowing and athletics; he joined the Alpine Club in 1858, becoming president for three years from 1865, and was soon reckoned to be among the first rank of English alpinists; he left Cambridge in 1864 and moved to London where he began a literary career, leading to his editorship of the Dictionary of National Biography; died 22 February 1904) |
Associated language | eng |