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Bayard Tuckerman

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Bayard Tuckerman (2 July 1855 New York City - 20 October 1923) was a United States biographer and historian.

Biography

He studied for two years in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, at the Pension Roulet, and later graduated from Harvard in 1878, and became a writer on historical and literary subjects. He lectured on English literature for Princeton University 1898-1907. He married Annie Osgood Smith in 1882; they had four children, among whom was Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., a noted jockey.

Works

  • History of English Prose Fiction (New York, 1882)
  • Life of General Lafayette (1889)
  • The Diary of Philip Hone (1889)
  • William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery (1894)
  • Life of General Philip Schuyler (1903)

Notes

References

  • Monaghan, Frank (1936). "Tuckerman, Bayard". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

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