Record ID:
35523002 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79114258
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18321128
Death:
  • 19040222
Lived/located in:
  • Cambridge, England London, England
Fields of activity:
  • Mountaineering Mathematics Criticism Biography Publishers and publishing
Occupations:
  • College teachers Clergy Mountaineers Critics Essayists Biographers Editors
Used for:
  • Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904
Notes:
  • Concise DNB (Stephen, Sir Leslie, 1832-1904)
  • Dictionary of national biography, 1998 t.p. (Sir Leslie Stephen)
  • His The playground of Europe ... 1871.
  • 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)
  • The life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen ... 1895 t.p. (his brother Leslie Stephen)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)23543
  • abv00438303
  • 000000526013
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC MoSU-L DLC OCoLC DLC Uk
Authentication code:
  • kin