Bayard Tuckerman
# Bayard Tuckerman

Bayard Tuckerman (2 July 1855 New York City - 20 October 1923) was a United States biographer and historian. He was the son of Lucius Tuckerman an iron manufacturer and Elizabeth Wolcott Gibbs Tuckerman.

## Biography

He studied for two years in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, at the Pension Roulet, and later graduated from Harvard in 1878, and became a writer on historical and literary subjects. He lectured on English literature for Princeton University 1898-1907. He married Annie Osgood Smith in 1882; they had four children, among whom was Bayard Tuckerman Jr., a noted jockey.

## Works

* History of English Prose Fiction (New York, 1882)
* Life of General Lafayette (1889)
* The Diary of Philip Hone (1889)
* William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery (1894)
* Life of General Philip Schuyler (1903)
