John Robert Seeley
1834–95
Historian. BA (classics), Cambridge (Christ’s College), 1852–7; fellow, 1857–9. Chief classical assistant master, City of London School, 1859–63. Professor of Latin, University College London, 1863. Increasingly challenged the educational dominance of Greek and Latin. Aspired to establish a new ‘science of politics’ based on his notion of history as a national medium of social morality. Regius professor of modern history at Cambridge, 1869–95. An acclaimed and popular lecturer. Knighted 1894.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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