Writer of books for boys, born in London, UK. He became head of his father's firm of typefounders, and wrote books on the history of printing. His robust, moral, but entertaining school stories first appeared in the Boy's Own Paper. They include The Fifth Form at St Dominic's (1881), The Master of the Shell (1887), and Cockhouse at Fellsgarth (1891).
Talbot Baines Reed (1852-93) was an English writer of boys' school stories, the most famous of which were The Fifth Form at St. Dominic’s and The Adventures of a Three Guinea Watch. Reed's family was closely involved with the Religious Tract Society, which founded the Boy's Own Paper, a periodical which published all of Reed's stories.
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