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Lee (SIR SIDNEY an English scholar)

SIR SIDNEY, an English scholar and writer, born in London, in 1859. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and became in 1883 assistant editor of the "Dictionary of National lege, Oxford, and became in 1883 assistlie Stephen, he was appointed successor. To this work he contributed about 800 articles. He lectured at Oxford and Cambridge, and in 1903 at the Lowell Institute of Boston. In 1913 he was appointed professor of English language and literature in the University of London. He was considered an authority on matters relating to Shakespeare, and wrote much on that subject. His "Life "(1906); "The toria"; "Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century" (1904); "Shakespeare and the Modern Stage " French Renaissance in England" (1910).