Thomas Andrew Archer, M.A.Oxon. (1853– 1905) was an English historian of the Crusades.[1]
Thomas Andrew Archer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1853 |
| Died | 1905 (aged 51–52) |
Biography edit
Archer was baptised on 18 October 1853 in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He matriculated at the University of Oxford in February 1876 and graduated there B.A. in 1880.[2]
He contributed over 100 articles to the Dictionary of National Biography, 5 articles to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and articles to learned journals such as the English Historical Review. With Charles Lethbridge Kingsford he published in 1894 a book on the Crusades as part of the "History of the Nations" published by T. Fisher Unwin.
When it was announced that Mr. Archer had undertaken the period—hardly the "nation"—of the Crusades, every one who was acquainted with his original and exhaustive researches in mediæval chronicles and romances prepared for a delightful study of a singularly interesting age. Mr. Archer's prolonged illness, however, compelled him to hand over his materials to Mr. Kingsford, whose historical contributions to the "Dictionary of National Biography" had attracted favourable notice; and the result is a joint work in which it is impossible to discriminate between the shares of the two authors.[3]
References edit
- ^ Archer, T.A. (1889). The crusade of Richard I, 1189-92. English History by Contemporary Writers, Vol. 5. GP Putnam's sons.
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. 1888. p. 29.
- ^ "Review of The Crusades; the Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem by T. A. Archer and C. Lethbridge Kingsford". The Athenaeum (3509): 112–113. 26 January 1895.
External links edit
- T. A. Archer and Charles L. Kingsford. The Crusades: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York & T. Fisher Unwin, London (1894), full text.