Bancroft
Bancroft names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Bancroft GEORGE, an American historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
GEORGE, an American historian, born near Worcester, Mass., Oct. 3, 1800. He was educated at Harvard and in Germany. In 1824 he published a translation of Heeren's "Politics of Ancient Greece," and a small volume of poems. Between 1834 and 1840 three volumes of his History of the United States were published. In 1845 he was appointed Secretary of the Navy. He was American Minister to England from 1846 to 1849, when the University of Oxford conferred on him the honorary degree of D. C. L. The fourth and fifth volumes of his history appeared in 1852. The sixth appeared in 1854, the seventh in 1858, the eighth soon after, but the ninth 'id not appear till 1866. From 1867 to 1874 he was Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Berlin. The 10th and last volume of his great work appeared in 1874. An additional section appeared, first as a separate work, in 1882: "History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States," and the whole came out in six volumes in 1884-1885. He settled in Washington on returning from Germany, in 1875, and died there Jan. 17, 1891.
Bancroft SIR SQUIRE, an English actor and manager
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR SQUIRE, an English actor and manager, born in London in 1841. His first appearance on the stage was made in Birmingham in 1861. This was followed by seasons in Dublin and Liverpool, after which he appeared in London at the Prince of Wales Theater in 1865. In 1871 he married Miss Wilton and with her took up the management of the Prince of Wales Theater. From 1880 to 1885 he also managed the Haymarket Theater. He and his wife then retired from active management. He appeared at the Lyceum with Henry Irving in 1889 and subsequently took part in several presentations at the Garrick and other theaters. He was knighted in 1897.
Bancroft HUBERT HOWE, an American historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HUBERT HOWE, an American historian, born in Granville, O., May 5, 1832. In 1852 he went to California to establish a book business, and began to collect documents, maps, books and MSS. for a complete "History of the Pacific States" from Mexico to Alaska. He published "Native Races of the Pacific States" (1875-1876); "History of the Pacific States" (1882-1891); a series of "Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth"; "The New Pacific" (1907); "Retrospection" (1912); etc. He died in 1918.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's wrote in 1921 while Sir Squire Bancroft was still alive; he died in 1926, and modern theatre historians give at least as much credit for the Prince of Wales reforms — the intimate, realistic "cup-and-saucer" staging of Tom Robertson's comedies — to his wife, Marie Wilton, whom the entry names only as "Miss Wilton". George Bancroft's ten-volume History of the United States, called here "his great work", is no longer read as history but as a monument of patriotic nineteenth-century nationalism, valued now chiefly by historians of historical writing itself. Hubert Howe Bancroft's legacy shifted in the other direction: the enormous collection of "documents, maps, books and MSS." he amassed passed to the University of California and survives as the Bancroft Library at Berkeley, one of the major research collections in the United States. It is also now well established that the volumes published under his name were largely written by a paid staff of assistants working to his plan.
Written for this edition, 2026.