Raymond_Beazley

Raymond Beazley

Raymond Beazley

British historian (1868–1955)

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]

Charles Raymond Beazley, c. 1910

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]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Beazley, Charles Raymond". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 120.
  2. [2]
    "Obituary: Sir Raymond Beazley". The Times. 2 February 1955. p. 11.
  3. [3]
    "Births." Belfast News-Letter, 7 April 1868
  4. [4]
    London, England, Non-conformist Registers, 1694–1931
  5. [5]
    Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 3.
  6. [6]
    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
  7. [7]
    Richard Griffiths, Fellow Travellers on the Right, Oxford University Press, 1983, p. 239
  8. [8]
    Griffiths, p. 309
  9. [9]
    "Review of Prince Henry the Navigator by C. Raymond Beazley". The Athenaeum (3559): 55. 11 January 1896.
  10. [10]
    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.
  11. [11]
    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.
  12. [12]
    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.
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