Sir Charles Harding Firth | |
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Born | |
Died | 19 February 1936 Acland Hospital, Oxford, England | (aged 78)
Resting place | Wolvercote, Oxford |
Nationality | British |
Education | Clifton College |
Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Occupation | Historian |
Known for | Works on the English Civil War and the Commonwealth |
Title | Regius Professor of Modern History |
Term | 1904–1925 |
Predecessor | Frederick York Powell |
Successor | Henry William Carless Davis |
Sir Charles Harding Firth FBA (16 March 1857 – 19 February 1936) was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906.[1] Esmond de Beer wrote that Firth "knew the men and women of the seventeenth century much as a man knows his friends and acquaintances, not only as characters but also in the whole moral and intellectual world in which they lived."[2]