Edward Augustus Freeman
Edward Augustus Freeman was an English historian, architectural artist, liberal politician during the late19thcentury heyday of William Gladstone, and a onetime candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans later he and Evans would be activists in the Balkan uprising of Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Ottoman Empire. After the marriage of his daughter Margaret to Evans, he and Evans collaborated on the fourth volume of his History of Sicily. He was a prolific writer, publishing 239 distinct works. One of his best known is his magnum opus, the 6volume The History of the Norman Conquest of England . Both he and Margaret died before Evans purchased the land from which he would excavate the Palace of Knossos.
Freeman was born at Metchley Abbey in Harborne, now a suburb of Birmingham. His parents, John Freeman and Mary Ann , used the Latin name of the month in which he was born as his middle name. They were a family of modest means however, the paternal grandfather, Joseph Freeman , had been a wealthy man, and the owner of Pedmore Hall. On his death, his will was disputed, and lawyers fees consumed the bulk of the estate. Edwards father, the oldest son, and his two paternal uncles, Keelinge and Joseph, received little to sustain them.
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