Osmund Airy (1845–1928) was an English historian who specialised in early modern Great Britain and Ireland and especially Charles II and the

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. He was born in October 1845 at the

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, the youngest son of Sir

George Biddell Airy Sir George Biddell Airy (; 27 July 18012 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, and the seventh Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. His many achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the E ...

, the

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. He was educated at

Blackheath Proprietary School The Blackheath Proprietary School was an educational establishment founded in 1830. In the 19th century, it had a profound influence on the game of football, in both Association and Rugby codes. In 1863, the school became one of the founders of Th ...

and

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

. He briefly served as an assistant at Blackheath before he joined the staff at

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where he stayed until 1876, when he was appointed as an Inspector of Schools. In 1904 he became a divisional inspector, retiring in 1910. He edited the first part of

Gilbert Burnet Gilbert Burnet (18 September 1643 – 17 March 1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Burnet was highly respected as a cleric, a preacher, an academic, ...

's ''History of His Own Time'' that concerns the reign of Charles II and published it in two volumes. His son was

James Airy James Osmund Airy (18 May 1884 – 21 July 1920) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. The son of the historian Osmund Airy, he was born at Kings Norton in May 1884. He was educated at Repton School, deciding upon the ...

, a cricketer and soldier who was killed in the

Irish War of Independence The Irish War of Independence () or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-mil ...

Works

* – Scottish Reformation to 1672 * – 1673 to 1685 * *

Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography

Airy has contributed 19 articles to the DNB. Among them: * * * *

Notes

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Airy, Osmund 19th-century English historians 1845 births 1928 deaths People educated at Blackheath Proprietary School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge People from Greenwich

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20th-century English historians