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W. (William) Stebbing
1832–1926
A Victorian man of letters with a long life in journalism, he wrote history, biography, criticism, and political studies alongside his work for The Times. His books reflect a wide-ranging, deeply literary mind shaped by Oxford scholarship and public debate.
2 Audiobooks
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic
by W. (William) Stebbing
Sir Walter Ralegh: A Biography
by W. (William) Stebbing
About the author
Educated at Westminster School, King's College London, and Oxford, he was a classical scholar who became a fellow of Worcester College. He was later called to the bar, but journalism and writing became the center of his career.
He is best remembered for his long association with The Times, where he worked as a leader writer and assistant editor in the later 19th century. Alongside newspaper work, he published biographies, historical studies, literary criticism, and essays, including books on figures such as Peterborough and Sir Walter Scott.
His career shows the breadth common to many Victorian writers: scholar, critic, journalist, and historian all at once. Living into the 1920s, he left behind a body of work that connects academic learning with the lively, argumentative world of the press.