Charles Firth (historian)
Sir Charles Harding Firth FBA (16 March 1857 – 19 February 1936) was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Esmond de Beer wrote that Firth "knew the men and women of the seventeenth century much as a man knows his friends and acquaintances, not only as characters but also in the whole moral and intellectual world in which they lived."
Sir Charles Harding Firth | |
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| Born | 16 March 1857 Broom Spring House, Wilkinson Street, Ecclesall, Sheffield, England |
| Died | 19 February 1936 (aged 78) Acland Hospital, Oxford, England |
| Resting place | Wolvercote, Oxford |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Clifton College |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | Works on the English Civil War and the Commonwealth |
| Title | Regius Professor of Modern History |
| Term | 1904–1925 |
| Predecessor | Frederick York Powell |
| Successor | Henry William Carless Davis |
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