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See also:HOOD, TOM (1835–1874) , See also:English humorist, son of the poet See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Hood, was See also:born at See also:Lake See also:House; See also:Wanstead, See also:Essex, on the 19th of See also:January 1835. After attending University See also:College School and See also:Louth See also:Grammar School he entered See also:Pembroke College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, in 1853, where he passed all the See also:examinations for the degree of B.A., but did not See also:graduate. At Oxford he wrote his Farewell to the Swallows (1853) and See also:Pen and See also:Pencil Pictures (1857). He began to write for the See also:Liskeard See also:Gazette in 1856, and edited that See also:paper in 1858–1859. He then obtained a position in the See also:War See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office, which he filled for five years, leaving in 1865
to become editor of Fun, the comic paper, which became very popular under his direction. In 1867 he first issued Tom Hood's Comic See also:Annual. In 1861 had appeared The Daughters of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Daker, and other Poems, after which he published in See also:conjunction with his See also:sister, Frances Freeling See also:Broderip, a number of amusing books for See also:children. His serious novels, of which See also:Captain Masters's Children (1865) is the best, were not so successful. Hood See also:drew with considerable facility, among his illustrations being those of several of his See also:father's comic verses. In private See also:life his geniality and sincere friendliness secured him the See also:affection and esteem of a wide circle of acquaintance. He died on the 20th of See also:November 1874.
A memoir by his sister, F. F. Broderip, is prefixed to the edition of his poems published in 1877.
End of Article: HOOD, TOM (1835–1874)
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