Henry William Carless Davis

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According to Wikipedia, Henry William Carless Davis was a British historian, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History. Early career Davis was born in Ebley, near Stroud, Gloucestershire the eldest of five children of Henry Frederick Alexander Davis, a solicitor, and his wife, Jessie Anna. The children were brought up by their mother, who moved to Weymouth in 1884 to open a school for young children including her own, and was successful enough to be appointed first headmistress of Weymouth College preparatory school in 1903. Davis attended Weymouth College from 1886 and went up to Balliol College, Oxford on a Brackenbury history scholarship, where he attained first classes in classical moderations in 1893 and literae humaniores in 1895 as well as the Jenkiyns exhibition. He was elected to a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, maintaining residence there from 1895 until 1902, and spending time teaching at University College, Bangor between 1896 and 1897. Davis won the Lothian Prize in 1897 and was appointed to a lectureship at New College, Oxford, and in 1899 exchanged lectureships and moved to Balliol, where on the expiration of his All Souls fellowship in November 1902 he was appointed a fellow of Balliol.

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The Dictionary of national biography : from the earliest times to 1900 (23)
The Dictionary of National Biography (1929) (19)
Essays in history : presented to Reginald Lane Poole (14)
The age of Grey and Peel (13)
The Anarchy of Stephen's Reign (1903) (11)
The International Position of Japan as a Great Power. (1906) (10)
Henry of Blois and Brian Fitz-Count (1910) (9)
England under the Normans and Angevins, 1066-1272 (8)
Lancashire reformers, 1816-17 (5)
Negro Folk-Lore in South Carolina (1914) (5)
Cavour and the Making of Modern Italy (3)
The Commune of Bury St. Edmunds, 1264 (1909) (3)
The Liberties of Bury St. Edmunds (1909) (3)
Cumberland before the Norman Conquest (3)
The Anglo-Saxon Laws (1913) (3)
The dictionary of national biography : founded in 1882 by George Smith, 1912-1921 (2)
Waldric, the Chancellor of Henry I (2)
The St. Albans Council of 1213 (1905) (1)
An Unpublished Life of Edmund Rich (1)
Mediaeval England: a New Edition of Barnard's Companion to English History (1924) (1)
A History of the Peace Conference of Paris (1924) (1)
VI. The Canon Law in England (1913) (0)
Die Englische Kolonisation in Irland.@@@Modern Ireland and Her Agrarian Problem. (1907) (0)
The World After the Peace Conference; Survey of International Affairs, 1920–1925 (1925) (0)
The study of history : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 4 November 1925 (0)
The Genesis of the War (1924) (0)
An Unknown Character of Liberties. (1905) (0)
The Chronicle of Battle Abbey (1914) (0)
Brougham, Lord Grey, and Canning, 1815–30 (1923) (0)
A Contemporary Account of the Battle of Tinchebrai (1909) (0)

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