Edward Armstrong (historian)

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Edward Armstrong FBA (3 March 1846 – 14 April 1928[1]) was an English historian.

Biography[edit]

He was born in Tidenham, Gloucestershire, the son of John Armstrong, later Bishop of Grahamstown.[2][3]

Armstrong was educated at Bradfield College and Exeter College, Oxford, and became a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. Armstrong wrote books on Charles V, Elisabeth Farnese, and Lorenzo de' Medici. He also contributed to The Cambridge Modern History and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Armstrong served as warden of Bradfield College from 1920 to 1925.

His first wife, Mabel née Watson, died in 1920. In 1921 he married his second wife, Geraldine Prynne Harriss (born 1899), who was the third daughter of Rev. James Adolphus Harriss (1859–1919).

Selected publications[edit]

  • Lorenzo De' Medici and Florence in the Fifteenth Century. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1896.
  • Elisabeth Farnese. Longmans, Green & Co. 1892.
  • The Emperor Charles V. Vol. I. Macmillan & Co. 1902.[4]
  • The Emperor Charles V. Vol. II. Macmillan & Co. 1902.[4]
  • The French Wars of Religion: Their Political Aspects. Blackwell. 1904.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Edward Armstrong (1846–1928)". Art UK. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  2. ^ Benjamin G. Kohl (2004). "Edward Armstrong". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30448. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "Mr. Edward Armstrong: Oxford Historian and Teacher". Obituary. The Times. No. 44, 868. London. 16 April 1928. p. 21. Free access icon
  4. ^ a b "Review of The Emperor Charles V by Edward Armstrong". The Edinburgh Review: 273–302. April 1903.

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