Walter Sichel
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Walter Sydney Sichel (1855–1933) was an English biographer and lawyer, the brother of Edith Helen Sichel, of German-Jewish descent,[1] born in London and educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford.
He studied law and was called to the bar in 1879. He wrote two law books and made contributions to the reviews. Additionally, he wrote:
- The Squires [by Aston Ryot (Σ)], an Aristophanic Burlesque (1885)
- Bolingbroke (1902)
- Disraeli, A Study in Personality and Ideas (1904)[2]
- The Life of Lord Beaconsfield (1904)
- Emma, Lady Hamilton (new edition, 1905)
- The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (two volumes, 1909)
- Sterne, A Study (1910)
References
[edit]- ^ William D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein, The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History, Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 909
- ^ "Review of Disraeli by Walter Sichel". The Oxford Magazine. 23. The Proprietors: 183–184. 8 February 1905.
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- Jewish English writers
- English biographers
- 19th-century English historians
- 1855 births
- 1933 deaths
- People educated at Harrow School
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- English people of German-Jewish descent
- 19th-century English lawyers
- 20th-century English historians
- British male biographers
- 20th-century English lawyers
- 19th-century British biographers
- 20th-century British biographers
- English non-fiction writer stubs