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Born June 21, 1825 • Knaresborough • England
Died April 22, 1901 (aged 75) • England
Subjects Of Study Middle Ages • England • constitution
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Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
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Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell
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Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
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
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James Anthony Froude
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Richard Henry Tawney
British economist
John Rushworth
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William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Camden
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Cecil Sharp
British musician
Orderic Vitalis
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A. F. Pollard
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Catharine Macaulay
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Roger Of Hoveden
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Sir John Fortescue
English jurist
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