Froude, James Anthony ♂

Education

Rector of St Andrews University 26.11.1868 - 22.11.1871.

LL.D. 19.3.1869.

Birth/childhood

Born 23.4.1818 son of Robert Hurrell Froude, Rector of Dartington, Devon and Margaret Spedding. [Minister]

Career

Educated at Oxford University - M.A. 1844. Fellow of Exeter College 1842-1849.

Editor of Fraser’s Magazine 1860-1874.

Historian and man of letters.

Rector of St Andrews University 26.11.1868 - 22.11.1871.

Publications

The nemesis of faith.(London: Chapman, 1849)

History of England from the fall of Wolsey to the death of Elizabeth.(History of England Vol. 1) (London: Parker, 1856)

Thomas Carlyle: a history of his life in London, 1834-1881. (London: Longmans, Green, 1885)

Inaugural address delivered to the University of St Andrews, March 19, 1869, by James Anthony Froude.

Death

Died 20.10.1894.

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