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contribution of Pollard
He was educated at Felsted School and at Jesus College, Oxford. In 1893 he was appointed to the editorial staff of the Dictionary of National Biography, to which he contributed about 500 entries, mainly on figures in the Tudor period. During that period, before the Dictionary was completed (through the first supplement), he completed two biographical volumes, England...
editing by Stephen
...of Ethics (1882), attempted to wed evolutionary theory to ethics, and An Agnostic’s Apology appeared in 1893. Stephen’s most enduring legacy, however, is the Dictionary of National Biography, which he edited from 1882 to 1891; he edited the first 26 volumes and contributed 378 biographies. In recognition of this service to letters he was knighted in...
importance in biographical literature
...of biographical facts concerning both the living and the dead. These collections stand apart from literature. Many nations have multivolume biographical dictionaries such as the Dictionary of National Biography in Britain and the Dictionary of American Biography in the United States; general encyclopaedias contain extensive information about...
publishing by Smith, Elder & Co.
...venture was the founding in 1865 of the Pall Mall Gazette, a paper described as “written by gentlemen for gentlemen.” The third and most important was the publication of the Dictionary of National Biography, the first volume of which was issued in 1885, it was completed in 1901, in 66 volumes, and this monumental work was the crowning effort of a successful career.