Seaman
Seaman names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Seaman SIR OWEN, an English writer and editor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR OWEN, an English writer and editor, born in 1861. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Cambridge University. After teaching for about 10 years, he began writing for "Punch" and other periodicals, in 1894. In 1897 he was called to the Inner Temple and in the same year he joined the editorial staff of "Punch," beco ch," becoming assiscant editor in 1902, and editor in in 1906. In 1909 he was made honorary fellow of Clair College, Cambridge, and in 1914 he was knighted. He was especially well known for his poetical work in the field of parody. He published "Edipus, the Wreck" (1888); "Horace at Cambridge" (1894); "Tillers of the Sand" (1895); "The Battle of the Bays" (1896); "In Cap and Bells" (1899); "Borrowed Plumes" (1902); "Harvest of Chaff" (1904); "Salvage" (1908); "War Time" (1915); "Made in England" (1916), etc.
Seaman LOUIS LIVINGSTON, an American surgeon
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LOUIS LIVINGSTON, an American surgeon, born at Newburgh, N. Y., in 1851. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1876, and from the University Medical College, New York, in 1877. He engaged in hospital work in the latter city, and in 1886 made a tour around the world. He served as surgeon of the First Regiment of the United States Volunteer Engineers, in the Spanish-American War, and during the Russo-Japanese War, was with the Japanese Army my in Manchuria. At the outbreak of the World War he served in the hospitals of the Belgian Army. He made a special study of the sanitary arrangement of armies, and was considered an authority on that subject. He wrote "The Crucifixion of Belgium"; "Military Preparedness," and many articles on medical and military subjects.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were living when Collier's wrote these notes in 1921, and both died in the following fifteen years: Owen Seaman edited Punch until his retirement in 1932 and died in 1936, while Louis Livingston Seaman, the army-sanitation specialist, also lived into the 1930s. Seaman's parodies, once his chief claim to fame, are now barely read; he is better remembered as the editor who hired A. A. Milne as his assistant on Punch, an uneasy partnership that Milne wrote about afterwards. The magazine itself, which gave Seaman his standing, closed in 1992 after 151 years and a brief revival ended in 2002. The entry's "Clair College" is a slip for Clare College, Cambridge.
Written for this edition, 2026.