IX 

 EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN 



THE sudden death of Professor Freeman, last 

 March [1892], was a great calamity to the world of 

 letters. Although his achievements in the field of 

 historical writing had been so varied and voluminous, 

 yet some of his most important themes some of 

 those which had been slowly ripening and most 

 richly developed in his mind were still awaiting 

 literary treatment at his hands, and at the time of 

 his death he had just finished the third volume of 

 a colossal work which was still in its earlier stages. 

 His end was premature, and it is with a keen sense 

 of bereavement that we take this occasion to pay 

 a brief word of tribute to so dear and honoured a 

 teacher. 



Edward Augustus Freeman, son of John Free- 

 man of Kedniore Hall, in Worcestershire, was born 

 at Harborne, Staffordshire, August 2, 1823. His 

 life was always purely that of a scholar and teacher, 

 and a chronicle of its events would consist chiefly 

 of the record of books published and offices held 



