Dictionary of National Biography

Hirst, Sir Edmund Langley (1898-1975), M. Stacey, The Dictionary of National Biography 1971 -SO, Oxford University Press, (1986) 411. 

Anonymous. Sir John Eldon Gorst. The Dictionary of National Biography. Supplement for 1912-1921. Oxford Oxford University Press, 1992. Source for Gorst s career. 

Waite, the Dictionary of National Biography, and certain articles in the Encyclopdoeia Britannica. This must not be taken to mean, however, that we have always followed the conclusions reached in these works, for so far as the older of them are concerned, recent researches by various authorities — to whom reference will be found in the following pages, and to whom, also, we are indebted — have shown, in certain cases, that such are not tenable. 

Stephen, Leslie and Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 

Dictionary of National Biography, ed. L. Stephen and S. Lee, 63 vols. (1885—1900), with supplements. 

A. McConnell, Instrument Makers in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Bull. Sci. Instrum. Soc., 2005, 84, 3-8. 

The British Dictionary of National Biography summarizes the Chinese career of the elder Brace succinctly ... 

Dictionary of National Biography (London Oxford University Press, 1968), Vol. m.p. 104ff... 

Stephen, L. (2004). Allen, William (1770-1843). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, http //www. oxford dnb.com/view/article/392, accessed 27 Nov 2007. 

Elizabeth Fulhame was a pioneer researcher in redox chemistry and the author of An Essay on Combustion with a View to a New Art of Dying and Painting, wherein the Phogistic and Antiphlogistic hypotheses are proved erroneous. See Davenport, D. A. (2004). Fulhame, E. (fl. 1780-1794). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, http //www. oxforddnb.com/view/article/39778, accessed 4 Nov 2004. 

Jane Marcet was renowned for her book Conversations on Chemistry, in which the elements of that Science are familiarly explained and illustrated by experiments. The book was designed for the woman reader to enable her to understand principles of chemistry. See Morse, E. J. (2004). Marcet, J. H. (1769—1858). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, http //www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18029, accessed 15 Nov 2007. 

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