Skip to content
229,518 profiles ranked

No free photograph

Charles Harding Firth

British military and political historian (1857-1936) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 78

Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906.

Charles Harding Firth is read about 5.5 times a day, in 10 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 14 July 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare

Awards

Knight Bachelor1922
Stanhope essay prize1877
Fellow of the British Academy

About this person

Esmond de Beer wrote that Firth "knew the men and women of the seventeenth century much as a man knows his friends and acquaintances, not only as characters but also in the whole moral and intellectual world in which they lived."

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1857 to 1936 · aged 78