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FIRTH, CHARLES HARDING (1857– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 425 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FIRTH, See also:CHARLES See also:HARDING (1857– ) , See also:British historian, was See also:born at See also:Sheffield on the 16th of See also:March 1857, and was educated at See also:Clifton See also:College and at Balliol College, See also:Oxford. At his university he took the See also:Stanhope See also:prize for an See also:essay on the See also:marquess See also:Wellesley in 1877, became lecturer at See also:Pembroke College in 1887, and See also:fellow of All Souls College in Igor. He was See also:Ford's lecturer in See also:English See also:history in 1900, and became regius See also:professor of See also:modern history at Oxford in See also:succession to F. See also:York See also:Powell in 1904. Firth's See also:historical See also:work was almost entirely confined to English history during the See also:time of the See also:Great See also:Civil See also:War and the See also:Commonwealth; and although he is somewhat overshadowed by S. R. See also:Gardiner, a worker in the same See also:field, his books are of great value to students of this See also:period. The See also:chief of them are: See also:Life of the See also:Duke of See also:Newcastle (1886) ; See also:Scotland and the See also:Common-See also:wealth (1895); Scotland and the See also:Protectorate (1899); Narrative of See also:General Venables (too()); See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell (1900); Cromwell's See also:Army (1902); and the See also:standard edition of See also:Ludlow's See also:Memoirs (1894). He also edited the See also:Clarke Papers (1891–1901), and Mrs See also:Hutchinson's Memoirs of See also:Colonel Hutchinson (1885), and wrote an introduction to the .See also:Stuart Tracts (1903), besides contributions to the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography. In 1909 he published The Last Years of the Protectorate.

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