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Charles Raymond Beazley (3 April 1868 – 1 February 1955) was a British historian. He was Professor of History at the
University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a Public university, public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingha ...
from 1909 to 1933.
Born in
Blackheath Blackheath may refer to:
Places England
*Blackheath, London, England
** Blackheath railway station
**Hundred of Blackheath, Kent, an ancient hundred in the north west of the county of Kent, England
*Blackheath, Surrey, England
** Hundred of Blackh ...
, he was the son of Rev. Joseph and Louisa Beazley. He was educated at
St Paul's School,
King's College London and
Balliol College, Oxford. His academic career was as a Fellow of
Merton College, Oxford,
until his chair at Birmingham.
Associated with a pro-German tendency within the British political and intellectual establishment in the inter-war years, Beazley was a regular contributor to the ''Anglo-German Review'', established in 1936. He subsequently sat on the National Council of
the Link, a pro-German organisation.
Works
*
James of Aragon' (1890)
*
Henry the Navigator' (1895)
* ''The Dawn of Modern Geography''
vol. 1, 1897vol. 2, 1901vol. 3, 1906ref>)
*
John and Sebastian Cabot' (1898)
* ''The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea''. Written by
Gomes Eannes de Azurara (1899) translator with
Edgar Prestage
* ''An English Garner: Voyages and Travels mainly during the 16th and 17th Centuries'' (1902) two volumes
* ''Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen. Select Narratives from the ''Principal Navigations'' of Hakluyt'' (1907) edited with
Edward John Payne
Edward John Payne (22 July 1844 – 26 December 1904) was an English barrister and historian specializing in colonial history.
Life
The elder son of Edward William Payne, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Payne was educated at High Wycombe Roya ...
*(trans.) "
Directorium ad faciendum passagium transmarinum
The ''Directorium ad faciendum passagium transmarinum'' (or ''Directorium ad passagium'' for short) is an anonymous 24,000-word Latin Recovery of the Holy Land, treatise on crusading submitted to King Philip VI of France on 26 July 1330 or 1332. T ...
Ian
II in ''American Historical Review'' (1907)
* ''A Note-book of Mediaeval History AD323–AD1453'' (1917)
*
Russia From The Varangians To The Bolsheviks' (1918) with
Nevill Forbes Nevill is an English toponymic surname derived from Neville, may refer to:
People
; British peerage
* Nevill baronets, two extinct creations, one of 1661 and one of 1675
* House of Nevill (Note: the spellings "Nevill" and "Neville" have both been ...
and
G. A. Birkett
*
Nineteenth Century Europe' (1922)
* ''The Road to Ruin in Europe'' (1932)
* ''The Beauty of the North Cotswolds'' (1946)
References
External links
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The Papers of Charles Raymond Beazleyat Dartmouth College Library
1868 births
1955 deaths
People educated at St Paul's School, London
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Alumni of King's College London
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
British historians
Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
Knights Bachelor
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