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Born 1564?
Died October 14, 1641 • London • England
Notable Works “Concilia, Decreta, Leges, Constitutiones, in Re Ecclesiarum Orbis Britannici”
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon
English statesman
1st Baron Acton of Aldenham, oil painting by Franz von Lenbach; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton
English historian and moralist
Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
British historian
James Anthony Froude
British historian
Hilaire Belloc
British author
Richard Henry Tawney
British economist
John Rushworth
English historian
Thomas Fuller, lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Thomas Fuller
English scholar, preacher, and author
R.G. Collingwood
British historian and philosopher
William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Camden
British historian
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
British historian
J.F.C. Fuller
J.F.C. Fuller
British army officer
Sir Basil Liddell Hart
British military historian
Matthew Paris
English artist and historian
Orderic Vitalis
Norman history
A.N. Wilson
English writer
A. F. Pollard
English historian and author
Catharine Macaulay
British historian