Raymond Beazley
British historian (1868–1955)
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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
- 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)
