Thomas James Wise

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Bell, Alan. “Wise, Thomas James (1859–1937).” Alan Bell In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed., edited by Lawrence Goldman, September 2012. Accessed, July 13, 2015. www.oxforddnb.com.

"... Wise joined the Shelley Society when it was founded in 1885, and became its secretary two years later. This enabled him to produce a series of publications, partly in the society's name and partly on his own account (but using the society's funds), which bankrupted it in 1892. He was encouraged in this extravagance by F. J. Furnivall, the mainspring of both societies; they may have lost money by it, but Wise did not.."

Wise, Thomas James (1859–1937), book collector and forger.