Author talk:Henry William Lumsden

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Talk:Dictionary of National_Biography, 1885-1900/List of Contributors#Henry William Lumsden

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Thought that Author:Henry William Lumsden would be easy. Possibles

• WH or HW Lumsden, Colonel R.A. b.c1829 Scotland apparently the author of the Memorials and the Beowulf below, and married his cousin Catherine Edith Lumsden. According to Burke's Peerage, this one was son of Clements Lumsden, an Aberdeen advocate, & lived 23 Aug 1829 - 23 Dec 1909. There should be plenty about him in Yellow Leaves, the memoirs of his sister w:Louisa Innes Lumsden.

I can find 1871 census for Scottish William Henry Capt RA, and a 1920 obit for Catherine Edith, widow of Henry William Colonel RA. (yes name reversal)

• Col Henry Lumsden OF Pitcaple, Aberdeenshire d. 20 June 1918, aged 93 (b.c1825) with obit in Times (22 June 1918) and would possibly different to above, though somehow related. This has Henry Lumsden of Pitcaple Castle born 1825. He seems here and in the Times obit to have married Edith Jane, dau. of the Rev. Robert Samuel Battiscombe. According to Burke's, this Col. Henry was the brother of the Catherine Edith who married the other Henry

I'd guess that we want the first of these, and that it might be the Col. Henry William Lumsden of Langley Park, Montrose who joined the Society of Antiquities of Scotland in 1873., and is listed in their early C20th Proceedings. I can find two items written by a Henry William Lumsden: an 1881 translation of Beowulf by Lieut.Col. H. W. Lumsden and a privately printed Memorials of the families of Lumsdaine, Lumisden or Lumsden, 1889 Parked until we can get some biographies to look at. -- billinghurst (talk) 14:44, 6 February 2009 (UTC) More details added.Dsp13 (talk) 02:39, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

The only DNB bio by Lumsden is that of the C17th Sir James Lumsden. Dsp13 (talk) 02:39, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

It is the author of Memorials of the Families of Lumsdaine, confirmed by the text of that biography. Charles Matthews (talk) 11:49, 16 November 2009 (UTC)