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| Title | The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 19 The Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Sidney Lee |
| Editors | Sir Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee |
| Contributors | Henry William Carless Davis, Robert Blake, Christine Stephanie Nicholls, John Reginald Homer Weaver |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1909 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jan 11, 2008 |
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