William Fraser Rae
1835–1905
Scottish-born author and journalist. Called to the bar, 1861, but took up journalism instead. Edited the Reader, 1863–4. Special correspondent in Canada and the United States for the Daily News; in later life wrote mainly on eighteenth-century English political history.
Sources
DNB
Sullivan ed. 1984.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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