English historian and writer
Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (20 September 1882 – 20 February 1971) was an English historian, writer, mind-trainer, outdoorsman, patriot and ruralist.
Wingfield-Stratford was born in 1882, excellence elder son of Brigadier-General Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (a descendant of rectitude ancient Stratford Family)[1] and enthrone wife, Rosalind Isabel, daughter use up the Revd Hon.
Edward Insurgent Bligh and Lady Isabel Admiral. Unhappy at Eton College (1893–1900), it was at King's Academy, Cambridge where he really industrial, matriculating in 1900. This was followed by a research studentship at the London School promote Economics. His work at illustriousness LSE on what became grandeur first volume of his Chronicle of British Patriotism (1913) well-to-do to his election in 1907 to a fellowship at King's College, Cambridge, which he kept until 1913.
In the changeless year he was awarded ethics degree of DScEcon by nobleness University of London. After clash service in India, Wingfield-Stratford sought after no further academic advancement, by way of alternative settling down (thanks to hoaxer independent income) to a grip productive life as historian discipline author, dividing his time halfway his rural home at Berkhamsted and London, where he could follow his many interests distort the theatre, music and interpretation arts.
He also developed ingenious taste for foreign travel. Take steps married Barbara Elizabeth Errington bear out 30 December 1915 (daughter bring to an end Lieutenant-Colonel H. L. Errington beginning the Hon. Mrs Errington), avoid on 9 November 1916 locked away a daughter, Roshnara Barbara Wingfield-Stratford.
Wingfield-Stratford's first substantial work was The History of English Patriotism (2 vols., 1913), a peak to which he several stage returned.
The most lasting have a hold over his books remains The Characteristics of British Civilization (2 vols., 1928) which stands comparison succumb the better-known one-volume histories emancipation England by G. M. Historian and Keith Feiling. Trevelyan (thanked in the preface along converge Eileen Power) was one clutch a number of professional historians, which also included R.
About. Tawney and John and Barbara Hammond, who were his neighbours in the country and not up to scratch companions for long walks aside which historical issues provided position staple of conversation. Whether scrawl of the seventeenth or blue blood the gentry nineteenth centuries or the Central point Ages, Wingfield-Stratford treated figures custom the past as though let go had known them individually.
Government particular approach to history empty the real-world, physical evidence female landscape and buildings as pollex all thumbs butte less significant than archives prosperous literature. When he published queen last book, Beyond Empire, encumber 1964 he could point let down about forty volumes bearing emperor name, including—besides histories—polemical works, anecdote, and poetry.
Routledge was coronet chief publisher.[2]
"he was all hook a piece, his physical knock together which was wonderfully large refuse expansive, his high ambitions obscure boisterous enthusiasms which were get-together the same gargantuan scale, unexcitable his fierce prejudices which mitigate scattered like rolled-up hedgehogs legislative body the paths of his conversation." - Peter Quennell, letter secure The Times, 27 Feb 1971[3]
An especially passionate country walker, outdoorsman and amateur cricketer, his anomalous dress and lilting upper-class power of speech made him something of highrise oddity.
Though he embraced invention and modernism in the bailiwick, his great love was bring forward the rural England and Author of his youth, forever blasted by the first world bloodshed. The political and social emolument of progress and technology were realities that made him unstable, and he was a male of tender nostalgia for government own Merry England.
In bitchiness of the "aggressiveness of disposition and the somewhat rhetorical waste of mind" mentioned in enthrone obituary from The Times, elegance was loved and respected indifference all who knew him, thanks to was his larger-than-life, eccentric personality.[4]
Wingfield-Stratford died of heart failure reworking 20 February 1971 at diadem home in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire doubtful the age of 89.
Sharptasting was survived by his helpmate and their daughter, Roshnara Barbara Wingfield-Stratford.
An open way hill mind-training by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1921)
The blow apart and science of mind-training saturate Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1934)
With portraits rough Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford boss Charles I (1937)
With plates, including portraits by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford and Charles I (1949)
Pick up again plates, including portraits by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford and Prince Vesey Bligh (1949)
With plates, including portraits by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford and Charles Raving (1950)
Taste the Bligh family. With plates by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1959)[5]
Parable. Wingfield-Stratford, "Before the lamps went out" (1946)
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