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Historical essayist, born in Greenhithe, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, joined the board of education in 1908, then became joint secretary of the new Ministry of Reconstruction (1917). Disillusioned with the civil service, he took up writing, publishing a life of Gibbon (1932), and editing Early Victorian England (2 vols, 1934). His other works include Charles I and Cromwell (1935), Daylight and Champaign (1937), and Today and Yesterday (1948). |
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