Thomas Archer (1830-1893) was a British author. His works include: Wayfe Summers: The Story of an Inner and an Outer Life (1863), The Pauper, the Thief and the Convict (1865), Great Fun Stories (1866), Strange Work (1868), A Fool's Paradise (1870), Decisive Events in History (1878), By Fire and Sword: A Story of the Huguenots (1885), Miss Grantley's Girls and the Stories She Told Them (1886), Our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria: Her Life and Jubilee (1888) and Twelve Stories From Early English History (1890).