Bayard Tuckerman

Bayard Tuckerman (2 July 1855 New York City - 20 October 1923) was a United States biographer and historian.

Biography

He studied for two years in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, at the Pension Roulet, and later graduated from Harvard in 1878, and became a writer on historical and literary subjects. He lectured on English literature for Princeton University 1898-1907. He married Annie Osgood Smith in 1882; they had four children, among whom was Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., a noted jockey.

Works

• History of English Prose Fiction (New York, 1882)
• Life of General Lafayette (1889)
• The Diary of Philip Hone (1889)
• William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery (1894)
• Life of General Philip Schuyler (1903)

Notes

References

• Monaghan, Frank (1936). "Tuckerman, Bayard". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

External links

• Works by Bayard Tuckerman at Project Gutenberg

• "Tuckerman, Joseph" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1889.