Edward Augustus Freeman

Edward Augustus Freeman
Born	(1823-08-02)2 August 1823 Metchley Abbey, Harborne, Warwickshire, England
Died	16 March 1892(1892-03-16) (aged 68) Alicante, Spain
Alma mater	Trinity College, Oxford
Occupation	Historian
Title	Regius Professor of Modern History
Term	1884–1892
Predecessor	William Stubbs
Successor	James Anthony Froude

Edward Augustus Freeman^[1] (2 August 1823 – 16 March 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of Prime Minister William Gladstone, as well as a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans; later he and Evans were activists in the Balkan uprising of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1874–1878) 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.^[2] One of his best known is his magnum opus, The History of the Norman Conquest of England (published in 6 volumes, 1867–1879). Both he and Margaret died before Evans purchased the land from which he would excavate the Palace of Knossos.