History Of England: Goldsmith's historical writings include the 2-volume History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son (1764), the 4-volume History of England (1771), a 2-volume history of Rome (1769), and a 2-volume work on Greece (1774). None of these were products of original research; Goldsmith merely read through the authoritative histories in print and digested them in his own more readable style.
Green then attempted a history for scholars, of which only two parts were published: The Making of England (1881), which covers the period from the departure of the Romans to the consolidation of England under Egbert; and The Conquest of England (1883), which ends with the arrival of the Normans. The latter, edited by his wife Alice Sophia Amelia Green (q.v.), was published after his death on March 7, 1883, at Menton, France.
ROBERTSON, James Craigie, Scottish clergyman : b. Aberdeen, Scotland, 1813 ; d. Canterbury, England, July 9, 1882. He was graduated from Cambridge in 1834, and took orders in the Anglican Church in 1836. He was made canon of Canterbury in 1859, and from 1867-1874 was professor of ecclesiastical history at King's College, London. He published How Shall We Conform to the Liturgy (1843) ; Church History (1852-1873) ; Plain Lectures on the Growth of Papal Power (1876) ; edited Heylyn's History of the Reformation (1849) ; Materials for the History of Archbishop Thomas Becket (1875-1882), etc. |
