biography
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| lived:
| (1825–1901)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and historian, born in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he became a fellow of Trinity College. After serving as vicar of Navestock, Essex (1850), he became a diocesan inspector of schools (1860), and professor of modern history at Oxford (1866). Later he was appointed a canon of St Paul's (1879), and Bishop of Chester (1884) and Oxford (1889). His many works include the monumental Constitutional History of England, down to 1485 (3 vols, 1874–8), which put the study of English constitutional origins on a firm basis. |
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