A. C. (Albert Christopher) Addison

Born in Northallerton, Yorkshire, on 22 April 1862, Albert Christopher Addison was an English writer and historian. His family had ties to publishing: his father, Daniel Addison, founded the Tamworth Herald in 1868.

Addison wrote popular historical works with a strong narrative pull, including The Story of the Birkenhead (1902), A Deathless Story of The Birkenhead and its Heroes (1906), The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims (1911), and The Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers and Their Founding of New Boston and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He also produced The Boston Guidebook and The Ancient Guildhall, showing a lasting interest in local as well as national history.

His life was not entirely straightforward. Contemporary records noted that in September 1896 he was sentenced at the Old Bailey for fraud-related offenses. He died on 24 May 1935. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the sources checked, so none is included here.