Sir Charles Raymond Beazley (3 April 1868 – 1 February 1955) was a British historian.[1] He was Professor of History at the University of Birmingham from 1909 to 1933.[2]
Born in Blackheath, he was the son of Rev. Joseph and Louisa Beazley.[3][4] 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,[5] until his chair at Birmingham.
Associated with a pro-German tendency within the British political and intellectual establishment in the inter-war years,[6] Beazley was a regular contributor to the Anglo-German Review, established in 1936.[7] He subsequently sat on the National Council of the Link, a pro-German organisation.[8]
Works
edit- James of Aragon (1890)
- Henry the Navigator (1895)[9]
- The Dawn of Modern Geography (vol. 1, 1897;[10] vol. 2, 1901;[11] vol. 3, 1906[12])
- 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
- (trans.) "Directorium ad faciendum passagium transmarinum" I and 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 and G. A. Birkett
- Nineteenth Century Europe (1922)
- The Road to Ruin in Europe (1932)
- The Beauty of the North Cotswolds (1946)
References
edit- ^ "Beazley, Charles Raymond". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 120.
- ^ "Obituary: Sir Raymond Beazley". The Times. 2 February 1955. p. 11.
- ^ "Births." Belfast News-Letter, 7 April 1868
- ^ London, England, Non-conformist Registers, 1694–1931
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 3.
- ^ Obermair, Hannes (2013), "Danger Zones – der englische Historiker John Sturge Stephens (1891–1954), der italienische Faschismus und Südtirol", in Faber, Richard (ed.), Italienischer Faschismus und deutschsprachiger Katholizismus, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 137–62 (150–1), ISBN 978-3-8260-5058-9
- ^ Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers on the Right, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 239
- ^ Griffiths, p. 309
- ^ "Review of Prince Henry the Navigator by C. Raymond Beazley". The Athenaeum (3559): 55. 11 January 1896.
- ^ Le Strange, Guy (July 1897). "Review of The Dawn of Modern Geography: A History of Exploration and Geographical Science from the Conversion of the Roman Empire to A.D. 900 by C. Raymond Beazley". The English Historical Review. 12: 538–543.
- ^ Le Strange, Guy (April 1902). "Review of The Dawn of Modern Geography: Part II. A History of Exploration and Geographical Science from the Close of the Ninth to the Middle of the Thirteenth Century by C. Raymond Beazley". The English Historical Review. 17: 338–339.
- ^ Le Strange, Guy (July 1907). "Review of The Dawn of Modern Geography: Vol. III. A History of Exploration and Geographical Science from the Middle of the Thirteenth to the Early Years of the Fifteenth Century by C. Raymond Beazley". The English Historical Review. 22: 573–574.
External links
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- Page includes a biography
- Works by Raymond Beazley at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Raymond Beazley at the Internet Archive
- Works by Raymond Beazley at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- The Papers of Charles Raymond Beazley at Dartmouth College Library
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