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HENRY FRANCIS PELHAM (1846-1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 67 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:FRANCIS See also:PELHAM (1846-1907)  , See also:English See also:scholar and historian, was See also:born at See also:Berg Apton, See also:Norfolk, on the 19th of See also:September 1846, son of the Hon . See also:John See also:Thomas See also:Pelham (1811-1894), See also:bishop of See also:Norwich, third son of the 2nd See also:earl of See also:Chichester . He was educated at See also:Harrow and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he took a first class in literae humaniores in 1869 . He was a See also:tutor of See also:Exeter College from 1869 to 189o . In 1887 he became university reader in See also:ancient See also:history, and two years later was elected to the See also:Camden professorship . He became See also:curator of the Bodleian library in 1892, and in 1897 See also:president of Trinity College . He was also a See also:fellow of Brasenose College, honorary fellow of Exeter, a fellow of the See also:British See also:Academy and of other learned See also:societies, and a See also:governor of Harrow School . His See also:chief contribution to ancient history was his See also:article on See also:Roman history in the 9th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica (1886), which was republished with additions as the Outlines of Roman History (189o) . His university lectures, though perhaps lacking in See also:inspiration, were full of See also:original See also:research and learning . His See also:death on the 13th of See also:February 1907 not only prevented the publication in systematic See also:form of his own important researches, but also delayed the See also:appearance of much that had been See also:left in MS. by H . See also:Furneaux and A . H .

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time under his See also:charge . Apart from the Outlines he published only The Imperial Domains and the Colonate (1890), The Roman Frontier See also:System (1895), and articles in See also:periodicals of which the most important was an article in the Quarterly See also:Review on the See also:early Caesars (See also:April, 1905) . He did much for the study of See also:archaeology at Oxford, materially assisted the Hellenic Society and the British School at See also:Athens, and was one of the founders of the British School at See also:Rome . He married in 1893 Laura Priscilla, daughter of See also:Sir See also:Edward See also:North See also:Buxton .

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