See also:SAMUEL RAWSON See also:GARDINER (1829–1902)
, See also:English historian, son of Rawson Boddam See also:Gardiner, was See also:born near Alresford, Hants, on the 4th of See also:March 1829
.
He was educated at See also:Winchester and See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he obtained a first class in literae humaniores
.
He was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls (1884) and Merton (1892)
.
For some years he was See also:professor of See also:modern See also:history at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, See also:London, and devoted his See also:life to See also:historical See also:work
.
He is the historian of the Puritan revolution, and has written its history in a See also:series of volumes, originally published under different titles, beginning with the See also:accession of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I.; the seventeenth (the third See also:volume of the History of the See also:Commonwealth and See also:Protectorate) appeared in 19o1
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This was completed in two volumes by C
.
H
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See also:Firth as The Last Years of the Protectorate (1909)
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The series is History of See also:England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War, 1603–1642 (10 vols.); History of the See also:Great Civil War, 1642–1649 (4 vols.); and History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-166o
.
His treatment is exhaustive and philosophical, taking in, along with See also:political and constitutional history, the changes in See also:religion, thought and sentiment during his See also:period, their causes and their tendencies
.
Of the See also:original authorities on which his work is founded many of great value exist only in See also:manuscript, and his researches in public and private collections of See also:manuscripts at See also:home, and in the archives of See also:Simancas, See also:Venice, See also:Rome, See also:Brussels and See also:Paris, were indefatigable and fruitful
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His accuracy is universally acknowledged
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He was perhaps See also:drawn to the Puritan period by the fact of his descent from See also:Cromwell and See also:Ireton, but he has certainly written of it with no other purpose than to set forth the truth
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In his judgments of men. and their actions he is unbiassed, and his appreciations of See also:character exhibit a remarkable fineness of See also:perception and a broad sympathy
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Among many proofs of these qualities it will be enough to refer to what he says of the characters of James I., See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon, See also:Laud, See also:Strafford and Cromwell
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On constitutional matters he writes with an insight to be attained only by the study of political See also:philosophy, discussing in a masterly See also:fashion the dreams of idealists and the schemes of See also:government proposed by statesmen
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Throughout his work he gives a prominent See also:place to everything which illustrates human progress in moral and religious, as well as political conceptions, and specially to the rise and development of the See also:idea of religious See also:toleration, finding his authorities not only in the words and actions of men of See also:mark, but in the writings of more or less obscure pamphleteers, whose essays indicate currents in the See also:tide of public See also:opinion
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His See also:record of the relations between England and other states proves his thorough knowledge of contemporary See also:European history, and is rendered specially valuable by his researches among manuscript See also:sources which have enabled him to expound for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time some intricate pieces of See also:diplomacy
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Gardiner's work is See also:long and See also:minute; the fifty-seven years which it covers are a period of exceptional importance in many directions, and the actions and characters of the See also:principal persons in it demand careful See also:analysis
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He is perhaps See also:apt to attach an exaggerated importance to some of the authorities which he was the first to bring to See also:light, to see a See also:general tendency in what may only be the expression of an individual eccentricity, to rely too much on ambassadors' reports which may have been written for some See also:special end, to enter too fully into the details of See also:diplomatic See also:correspondence
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In any See also:case the length of his work is not the result of verbiage or repetitions
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His See also:style is clear, absolutely unadorned, and somewhat lacking in force; he appeals constantly to the See also:intellect rather than to the emotions, and is seldom picturesque, though in describing a few famous scenes, such as the See also:execution of See also:Charles I., he writes with pathos and dignity
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The minuteness of his narrative detracts from its See also:interest; though his arrangement is generally See also:good, here and there the reader finds the See also:- THREAD (0. Eng. praed, literally, that which is twisted, prawan, to twist, to throw, cf. " throwster," a silk-winder, Ger. drehen, to twist, turn, Du. draad, Ger. Draht, thread, wire)
thread of a subject broken by the intrusion of incidents not immediately connected with it, and does not pick it up again without an effort
.
And Gardiner has the defects of his supreme qualities, of his fairness and See also:critical ability as a See also:judge of character; his work lacks See also:enthusiasm, and leaves the reader See also:cold and unmoved
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Yet, apart from its See also:sterling excellence, it is not withoutbeauties, for it is marked by loftiness of thought, a love of purity and truth, and refinement in See also:taste and feeling
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He wrote other books, mostly on the same period, but his great history is that by which his name will live
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It is a worthy result of a life of unremitting labour, a splendid See also:monument of historical scholarship
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His position as an historian was formally acknowledged: in 1862 he was given a civil See also:list See also:pension of £150 per annum, " in recognition of his valuable contributions to the history of England "; he was honorary D.C.L. of Oxford, LL.D. of See also:Edinburgh, and Ph.D. of See also:Gottingen, and honorary student of Christ Church, Oxford; and in 1894 he declined the See also:appointment of regius professor of modern history at Oxford, lest its duties should interfere with the accomplishment of his history
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He died on the 24th of See also:February 1902
.
Among the more noteworthy of Gardiner's See also:separate See also:works are: See also:Prince Charles and the See also:Spanish See also:Marriage (2 vols., London, 1869) ; Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–166o (1st ed., Oxford, 1889; 2nd ed., Oxford, 1899) ; See also:Oliver Cromwell (London, 1901) ; What See also:Gunpowder See also:Plot was (London, 1897) ; Outline of English History (1st ed., London, 1887; 2nd ed., London, 1896); and Student's History of England (2 vols., 1st ed., London, 189o–1891; 2nd ed., London, 1891–1892)
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He edited collections of papers for the See also:Camden Society, and from 1891 was editor of the English Historical See also:Review
.
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