Charles Harding Firth [SEP] date of death
Charles Firth (historian)
Sir Charles Harding Firth (16 March 1857 – 19 February 1936) was a British historian.
Career.
Born in Sheffield, Firth was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford. At university he took the Stanhope prize for an essay on Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley in 1877 and was a member of the exclusive Stubbs Society for high-achieving historians. He became lecturer at Pembroke College in 1887, and fellow of All Souls College in 1901. He was Ford
of England. Following his death, it was completed in two volumes by Charles Harding Firth as "The Last Years of the Protectorate" (1909).
The series is "History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War, 1603–1642" (10 vols. 1883-4); "History of the Great Civil War, 1642–1649" (5 vols. 1893); and "History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649–1660" (4 vol. 1903). Gardiner's