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THOMAS HENRY DYER (1804-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 755 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:HENRY See also:DYER (1804-1888)  , See also:English See also:historical and antiquarian writer, was See also:born in See also:London on the 4th of May 1804 . He was originally intended for a business career, and for some See also:time acted as clerk in a See also:West See also:India See also:house; but finding his services no longer required after the passing of the See also:Negro Emancipation See also:Act, he decided to devote himself to literature . In 1850 he published the See also:Life of See also:Calvin, a conscientious and on the whole impartial See also:work, though the See also:character of Calvin is somewhat harshly See also:drawn, and his See also:influence in the religious See also:world generally is insufficiently appreciated . See also:Dyer's first historical work was the See also:History of See also:Modern See also:Europe (1861-1864; 3rd ed. revised and continued to the end of the 19th See also:century, by A . See also:Hassan, Igor), a meritorious compilation and storehouse of facts, but not very readable . The History of the See also:City of See also:Rome (1865) down to the end of the See also:middle ages was followed by the History of the See also:Kings of Rome (1868), which, upholding against the See also:German school the See also:general credibility of the See also:account of See also:early See also:Roman history, given in See also:Livy and other classical authors, was violently attacked by J . R . See also:Seeley and the Saturday See also:Review, as showing See also:ignorance of the See also:comparative method . More favourable opinions of the work were expressed by others, but it is generally agreed that the author's scholarship is defective and that his views are far too conservative . Rama Regalis (1872) and A Plea for Livy (1873) were written in reply to his critics . Dyer frequently visited See also:Greece and See also:Italy, and his topographical See also:works are probably his best; amongst these mention may be made of See also:Pompeii, its History, Buildings and Antiquities (1867, new ed. in See also:Bohn's Illustrated Library), and See also:Ancient See also:Athens, its History, See also:Topography and Remains (1873) . His last publication was On Imitative See also:Art (1882) .

He died at See also:

Bath on the 3oth of See also:January 1888 .

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