Edward Irving Carlyle (15 September 1871 – 9 February 1952) was a British author and historian. He was educated at

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro ...

, where he was a Casberd scholar. He graduated in 1894 and was appointed assistant editor of the ''

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''. He relinquished this role after being elected a Fellow of

Merton College, Oxford Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of Oxford University, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the ...

, in 1901. He then served at

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, from 1907 until he retired in 1944.‘Mr. E. I. Carlyle’, ''The Times'' (13 February 1952), p. 8. In 1904 he published a sympathetic biography of

William Cobbett William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restrain foreign ...

and he also contributed histories of British South Africa, East Africa and West Africa to Albert Pollard's 1909 work ''The British Empire''. He married Susan Mary Catherine née Hockin in 1913, with who he had a son and two daughters.

Works

*''William Cobbett: A Study of His Life as Shown in His Writings'' (1904).

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlyle, Edward 1871 births 1952 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Fellows of Merton College, Oxford Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford British historians