Stubbs
Stubbs names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Stubbs WALTER ROSCOE, an American public official
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WALTER ROSCOE, an American public official, born in Richmond, Ind., in 1858. He studied at the University of Kansas and began his business career as a railroad contractor. Later he became the owner and operator of large cattle ranches in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. From 1903 to 1907 he was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, from 1904 to 1908 chairman of the Republican State Committee of Kansas, and from 1909 to 1913 (2 terms) Governor of Kansas. In 1917 he was appointed a member of the United States Live Stock Industry Committee. STRONG, WILLIAM, a Scotch painter, born at Dumbarton in 1859. He was educated at Dumbarton Academy, Slade School, and University College, London, and has studied and worked in London since 1875. He received the Silver Medal for Etching in the Paris International Exhibition in 1889, and the First Class Gold Medal for Painting in the Dresden International Exhibition in 1897. 1906 he became an associate in the Royal strongly-heated Academy; and an LL.D., Glasgow, 1909. He has been president of the a International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers since 1918. He wrote "The Earth Fiend," a ballad d; and ; "Death and the Ploughman's Wife."
Stubbs WILLIAM, an English historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an English historian; was born in Knaresborough, England, June 21, 1825; was educated at Ripon Grammar School, whence he proceeded to Oxford University and latterly became a fellow of Trinity College. In 1848 he was ordained, and became vicar of Navestock, Essex, in 1850. In 1862 he was appointed librarian of Lambeth Palace, in 1866 Professor of Modern History at Oxford, in 1869 curator of the Bodleian Library, in 1875 rector of Cholderton, Wilts, in 1879 canon residentiary of St, Paul's, in 1884 bishop of Chester, and in 1888 bishop of Oxford. He edited many valuable historical works in the Rolls Series, including "Chronicles and Memorials of the reign of Richard I." (1864-1865); "Gesta Regis Henrici II." (1867); "Chronicle of Roger Hoveden" (1872-1873); "Memorials of St. Dunstan" (1874); and "Opera Radulphi de Diceto" (1876); his chief work the Constitutional History of England (1874- 1878), and many others. He was a member of various English and foreign learned societies. He died April 22, 1901.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 could still call Stubbs's Constitutional History of England (1874-78) simply "his chief work"; at that date it was the standard textbook and his Select Charters drilled generations of Oxford undergraduates. Twentieth-century scholarship dismantled much of its framework - the idea that English self-government grew unbroken from Germanic and Anglo-Saxon roots - beginning with Charles Petit-Dutaillis's supplementary studies and continuing through critics who read Stubbs as a Victorian constitutionalist projecting his own age backwards. His editorial work has worn far better: the Rolls Series volumes are still cited, though the chronicle he printed as the Gesta of Benedict of Peterborough is now generally credited to Roger of Howden himself. The other Stubbs here, Governor Walter Roscoe Stubbs of Kansas, is remembered chiefly as a Progressive-era reformer and is little written about today.
Written for this edition, 2026.