Edward Spencer Beesly
Edward Spencer Beesly was an English positivist and historian.
He was born onJanuary 1831 in Feckenham, Worcestershire, the eldest son of the Rev. James Beesly and his wife, Mary Fitzgerald, of Queens county, Ireland. After reading Latin and Greek with his father, in the autumn of 1846 he was sent to King Williams College on the Isle of Man, an evangelical establishment whose inadequate instruction and low moral tone were later depicted in Eric, or, Little by Little, by his school friend F. W. Farrar.
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