William Samuel Lilly

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W. S. Lilly
Born William Samuel Lilly
(1840-07-10)10 July 1840
Dorset, England
Died 29 August 1919(1919-08-29) (aged 79)
West Kensington, London
Occupation Historian, Jurist
Nationality English
Spouse Anna Marie Lilly

William Samuel Lilly (July 10, 1840 – August 29, 1919)[1] was an English barrister and man of letters.

Biography

Lilly was born at Fifehead, Dorset, in 1840. He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, taking his degree of LL.B. in 1862, and his LL.M. in 1870. After some private tuition from Sir Adolphus William Ward, he entered the Indian civil service, becoming in 1869 secretary to the government of Madras. Owing to a breakdown in health, however, he had to return to England, where he devoted himself to a career in literature. With his wide-ranging intellectual interests, Lilly occasionally wrote for some of the major publications of his time, such as The Nineteenth Century, The Contemporary Review, The Fortnightly Review, Popular Science Monthly, and The Dublin Review.

Lilly was a convert to Roman Catholicism, and from 1874 was secretary to the Catholic Union of Great Britain. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex and London.

Works

  • Ancient Religion and Modern Thought (1884).
  • Chapters in European History (2 vols., 1886).
  • A Century of Revolution (1890).[2]
  • On Right and Wrong (1890).
  • On Shibboleths (1892).
  • The Great Enigma (1893).
  • Manual of the Law Specially Affecting Catholics (1893, with John E.P. Wallis).
  • The Claims of Christianity (1894).
  • Four English Humourists of the Nineteenth Century (1895).
  • Essays and Speeches (1897).
  • First Principles in Politics (1899).
  • Renaissance Types (1901).
  • India and its Problems (1902).
  • Christianity and Modern Civilization (1903).
  • Studies in Religion and Literature (1904).
  • Many Mansions: Studies in Ancient Religion and Modern Thought (1907).
  • Idola Fori (1910).
  • The New France (1913).
  • An Invisible Kingdom (1919).

Selected articles

Miscellany

  • Characteristics from the Writings of John Henry Newman (1874).

Notes

  1. "Death of Mr. W.S. Lilly," The Times, September 1, 1919, p. 13.
  2. Pater, Walter (1903). "A Century of Revolution." In: Uncollected Essays. Portland, Me.: Thomas B. Mosher, pp. 115–122.
  3. Rpt. in Eclectic Magazine, Vol. CI, 1883; Choice Literature, Vol. III, 1884.
  4. Rpt. in Eclectic Magazine, Vol. Vol. CI, 1883.
  5. Rpt. in Eclectic Magazine, Vol. CIII, 1884.
  6. Rpt. in Eclectic Magazine, Vol. CVI, 1886; The Living Age, Vol. CLXVIII, 1886.
  7. Rpt. in Popular Science Monthly, Vol. XXX, 1887.
  8. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CLXXVI, 1888.
  9. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CLXXXII, 1889.
  10. Rpt. in Eclectic Magazine, Vol. CXIII, 1889.
  11. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CLXXXVII, 1890.
  12. Rpt. in Eclectic Magazine, Vol. CXXII, 1894.
  13. Rpt. in Eclectic Magazine, Vol. CXXII, 1894.
  14. Rpt. in Eclectic Magazine, Vol. CXXV, 1895.
  15. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CCXIII, 1897.
  16. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CCLXI, 1909.
  17. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CCLXVII, 1910.
  18. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CCLXXI, 1911.
  19. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CCLXXIII, 1912.
  20. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CCLXXIII, 1912.
  21. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CCLXXV, 1912.
  22. Rpt. in The Living Age, Vol. CCLXXXII, 1914.

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