Orton, Charles William Previté-, 1877-1947 (historian and professor)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1877 - 1947
Biography
Charles William Previté-Orton (1877-1947), historian, was born at Arnesby in Leicestershire on 16 January 1877. In 1905 he entered his father's old college of St John's, Cambridge. Previté-Orton's first book, The Early History of the House of Savoy (1912), immediately established his reputation as a leading English exponent of the exact scholarship and exhaustive attention to sources exemplified by the influential German historical scholarship of the period. In 1925 he was invited to become joint editor, and from January 1927 to January 1938 sole editor, of the English Historical Review. He died at home on 11 March 1947.
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Fonds
Charles William Previté-Orton: Correspondence to Charles Sayle, 1915
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4251/1131-1133
Scope and Contents
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Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Dates:
1915
Conditions Governing Access:
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