[George Makepeace]. American author, born in Washington, DC, on the 27th of August 1841; died on the 8th of August 1893. He graduated at Yale in 1861, studied law at Harvard and practiced in Boston. He served as consul to European cities, was managing editor of the Boston Commercial Bulletin (1870–71) and edited the foreign department of the Post (1871–76). He wrote The Eastern Question; American Society; Beaconsfield; Heroes of History; Modern France; Certain Men of Mark; and other works on history and literature.
