British historian (1868–1955)
Charles Raymond Beazley, c. 1910
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]
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^ "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.
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