Clowes, W. Laird Sir, 1856-1905
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Other Identifiers
- BL database, 25 Nov. 2008(Speculator Morum i.e. W.L. Clowes; BL copy incl. MS letter from publisher identifying author as Clowes)
- Bibliotheca arcana, 1884-1885:t.p. (Speculator Morum)
- His The Royal Navy, 1897-1903:t.p. (Wm. Laird Clowes)
- His Black America, 1891.
- His Told to the marines, 1902:t.p. (Sir W. Laird Clowes)
- His The royal navy, 1897-1903:t.p. (Wm. Laird Clowes)
- DNB 1901-1911(Clowes, Sir William Laird; naval writer; wrote under the pseudonym "Nauticus")
- BM(Clowes, Sir William Laird; has ref.: Laird-Clowes, Sir William)
- The Royal Navy, 1996:t.p. (Wm. Laird Clowes)
- Truth about the Schley case, 190-?:t.p. (by "Nauticus")
- Dictionary of pseudonyms, 1998(Nauticus: (1) [Sir] William Laird Clowes (1856-1905); (2) [Sir] Owen Seaman (1861-1936), Eng. editor, humorist)
Wikipedia description:
Sir William Laird Clowes (1 February 1856 – 14 August 1905) was a British journalist and historian whose principal work was The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, a text that is still in print. He also wrote numerous technical pieces on naval technology and strategy and was also noted for his articles concerning racial politics in the Southern United States. Despite having trained as a lawyer, Clowes had always preferred literature and writing, publishing his first work in 1876 and becoming a full-time journalist in 1879. For the services rendered in his career, Clowes was knighted, awarded the gold medal of the United States Naval Institute and given a civil list pension. He died in Sussex in 1905 after years of ill health.
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