Stephen Leacock
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 30 December 1869
- Died
- 28 March 1944
- Works
- 493
Top works
- Nonsense novels
- My discovery of England
- College days
- Last leaves
- Frenzied fiction
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Canada
- Active from
- 1869-12-30
- Active to
- 1944-03-28
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 89
- Total plays
- 351
Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian economist, writer and humorist. Leacock was born in Swanmore, near Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England, and at the age of six moved to Canada with his family, which settled on a farm in Egypt, Ontario, near the village of Sutton and the shores of Lake Simcoe. While the family had been well off in England (the Leacocks had made a fortune in Madeira and lived on an estate called Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight) <a href=
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,083x
- Convex Optimization
· 2004 · cited 40,517x
- Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows
· 2021 · cited 27,780x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,347x
- Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations
· 1991 · cited 22,900x
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Quotes
- “Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”
- “Special Correspondence. I learn from a very high authority, whose name I am not at liberty to mention, (speaking to me at a place which I am not allowed to indicate and in a language which I am forbidden to use)—that Austria-Hungary is about to take a diplomatic step of the highest importance. What this step is, I am forbidden to say. But the consequences of it—which unfortunately I am pledged not to disclose—will be such as to effect results which I am not free to enumerate.”
- “Americans are queer people: they can't rest.”
- “The Lord said "Let there be wheat" and Saskatchewan was born.”
- “With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.”
- “It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Stephen Butler Leacock , 30 December 1869, Swanmore , Hampshire , England
- Died
- 28 March 1944 (1944-03-28) (aged 74), Toronto , Ontario , Canada
- Language
- English
- Education
- Upper Canada College
- Alma mater
- University of Toronto , University of Chicago
- Genre
- Humour
- Subject
- Sciences
- Notable works
- Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town; Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich; My Financial Career
- Notable awards
- Lorne Pierce Medal , Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Stephen Leacock.jpg
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- date of death
- 1944-03-28
- date of birth
- 1869-12-30
- Commons category
- Stephen Leacock
- birth name
- Stephen Butler Leacock
- inventory number
- MS COLL 00499
- P12749
- Canon EOS 40D
- name in native language
- Stephen Leacock
- Commons Creator page
- Stephen Leacock
Sources (5)
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Stephen Leacock, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~19 min read
Article
Stephen Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.
Early life