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Walter Sichel
1855–1933
A lawyer by training who became known for lively literary biographies, he wrote about figures such as Bolingbroke, Disraeli, Emma Hamilton, Sheridan, and Sterne. His work blends legal precision with a clear interest in personality and character.
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Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas
by Walter Sichel
About the author
Born in London in 1855, he was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. He later studied law and was called to the bar in 1879, but he also built a parallel career as a man of letters, contributing to reviews and publishing both legal works and historical biography.
He is best remembered for biographies and studies of major British figures, including Bolingbroke and His Times, Beaconsfield, Disraeli, Emma Lady Hamilton, The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Sterne: A Study. Reference pages also note that he contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography, showing how closely he worked within the biographical tradition he helped shape.
Walter Sydney Sichel died in 1933. A confirmed portrait image was not readily available from the pages checked, so no profile image is included here.