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Apocryphal biographies in the Dictionary of National Biography : ウィキペディア英語版
Apocryphal biographies in the Dictionary of National Biography

There are apocryphal biographies in the first edition (1885–1900) of the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' (DNB), a major work on historical biography related to the United Kingdom. In other words there is a biography that presents a life of a person asserted to have existed, but (in the light of later scholarship) the evidence for the person having lived has become regarded as tenuous or non-existent.
Examples are in , based on the updated ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (ODNB), where the corresponding article casts serious doubt on the DNB assertions.
==Kirkman Finlay==
Kirkman Finlay—supposed: (''c.'' 1802–1828) was an alleged Scottish philhellene.
The DNB has an article on this man, but more modern scholarship refutes its credibility. Monica Clough in the 21st century ODNB explains how the original source for the DNB probably confused fact with fiction and concludes by citing and quoting C. R. Fay (1951):

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