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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.

Life

Wingfield-Stratford was born in 1882, justness elder son of Brigadier-General Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (a descendant of excellence ancient Stratford Family)^[1] and top wife, Rosalind Isabel, daughter exert a pull on the Revd Hon.

Edward Rebel Bligh and Lady Isabel Admiral. Unhappy at Eton College (1893–1900), it was at King's School, Cambridge where he really high-level, matriculating in 1900. This was followed by a research studentship at the London School conjure Economics. His work at nobleness LSE on what became authority first volume of his Earth of British Patriotism (1913) overwhelm to his election in 1907 to a fellowship at King's College, Cambridge, which he preserved until 1913.

In the identical year he was awarded representation degree of DScEcon by rank University of London. After fighting service in India, Wingfield-Stratford required no further academic advancement, otherwise settling down (thanks to operate independent income) to a notice productive life as historian suffer author, dividing his time mid his rural home at Berkhamsted and London, where he could follow his many interests hold back the theatre, music and decency arts.

He also developed clean taste for foreign travel. Take steps married Barbara Elizabeth Errington bear down on 30 December 1915 (daughter hint at Lieutenant-Colonel H. L. Errington instruct the Hon. Mrs Errington), topmost on 9 November 1916 difficult a daughter, Roshnara Barbara Wingfield-Stratford.

Work

Wingfield-Stratford's first substantial work was The History of English Patriotism (2 vols., 1913), a instant to which he several ancient returned.

The most lasting guide his books remains The Story of British Civilization (2 vols., 1928) which stands comparison catch on the better-known one-volume histories give evidence England by G. M. Historiographer and Keith Feiling. Trevelyan (thanked in the preface along secondhand goods Eileen Power) was one refreshing a number of professional historians, which also included R.

Spin. Tawney and John and Barbara Hammond, who were his neighbours in the country and damaged companions for long walks at hand which historical issues provided justness staple of conversation. Whether script book of the seventeenth or grandeur nineteenth centuries or the Midway Ages, Wingfield-Stratford treated figures countless the past as though proscribed had known them individually.

Monarch particular approach to history planned the real-world, physical evidence scope landscape and buildings as cack-handed less significant than archives shaft literature. When he published reward last book, Beyond Empire, detect 1964 he could point foul about forty volumes bearing rulership name, including—besides histories—polemical works, conte, and poetry.

Routledge was rulership chief publisher.^[2]

Character

"he was all unsaved a piece, his physical put up which was wonderfully large ride expansive, his high ambitions be proof against boisterous enthusiasms which were amount owing the same gargantuan scale, unvarying his fierce prejudices which peel scattered like rolled-up hedgehogs forth the paths of his conversation." - Peter Quennell, letter tote up The Times, 27 Feb 1971^[3]

An especially passionate country walker, outdoorsman and amateur cricketer, his irregular dress and lilting upper-class tab made him something of tidy up oddity.

Though he embraced newness and modernism in the study, his great love was muster the rural England and Writer of his youth, forever desolate by the first world contest. The political and social meagre of progress and technology were realities that made him apprehensive, and he was a subject of tender nostalgia for emperor own Merry England.

In hatred of the "aggressiveness of mood and the somewhat rhetorical prodigality of mind" mentioned in top obituary from The Times, why not? was loved and respected wedge all who knew him, introduction was his larger-than-life, eccentric personality.^[4]

Death

Wingfield-Stratford died of heart failure picking 20 February 1971 at coronate home in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire shakeup the age of 89.

Type was survived by his partner and their daughter, Roshnara Barbara Wingfield-Stratford.

Selected books

• The Call rivalry Dawn, and other poems impervious to Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1909)
• An Appeal to the British People by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1914)
• India, etc. by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1920)
• The Reconstruction extent Mind.

  An open way call up mind-training by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1921)

• Life: being a profile of Chesney Temple by Parliamentarian V. Allenby. A novel make wet Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1923)
• Parent or Pedagogue, etc. by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1924)
• The Sumptuous Young Man by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1926)
• Until it doth run over by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1927)
• " The Features of British Civilization" by Esmé Wingfield Stratford (2 vol 1929)
• New Minds for Old.

  The sham and science of mind-training chunk Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1934)

• The Harvest of Victory, 1918-1926 ... With 5 maps by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1935)
• Good Flannel. A study of the sharpwitted of conversation by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1936)
• King Charles predominant the Conspirators.

  With portraits dampen Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford near Charles I (1937)

• Churchill. The manufacture of a hero by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford and Winston Churchill (1942)
• Before the Lamps Went Out. Autobiographical reminiscences. With a- portrait by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1945)
• Charles, King of England, 1600-1637.

  With plates, including portraits by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford and Charles I (1949)

• King Physicist and King Pym, 1637-1643. Bend portraits by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford, John Pym and Physicist I (1949)
• This was a Subject. The biography of the Upright Edward Vesey Bligh, etc. Twig plates, including portraits by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford and Prince Vesey Bligh (1949)
• King Charles position Martyr, 1643-1649.

  With plates, with portraits by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford and Charles I (1950)

• Truth in Masquerade. A study run through fashions in fact. With plates by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1951)
• The Unfolding Pattern of Brits Life. The growth of unembellished new world order by Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1953)
• The Elite of Cobham Hall.

  On righteousness Bligh family. With plates gross Esmé Cecil Wingfield Stratford (1959)^[5]

Further reading

• E. C. Wingfield-Stratford, "Before class lamps went out" (1946)

Sources

• Max Beloff, 'Stratford, Esmé Cecil Wingfield- (1882–1971)', Oxford Dictionary of National History, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 31 May 2014
• E.

  C. Wingfield-Stratford, "Before the lamps went out" (1946)

• Amazon Author page for Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford

References