biography
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| (1812–1904)
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| biography:
| Writer and social reformer, born in Haddington, East Lothian, E Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh, and settled as a surgeon in Leeds, but left medicine for journalism, editing the Leeds Times (1838–42), and becoming involved in railway companies until 1866. His main work was a guide to self-improvement, Self-Help (1859), with its short lives of great men and the admonition ‘Do thou likewise’. He also wrote many biographical and moral books. |
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