Thomas Andrew Archer Explained

Birth Date:1853
Birth Place:Stoke on Trent
Death Place:Headington

Thomas Andrew Archer, M.A.Oxon. (1853– 1905) was an English historian of the Crusades.[1]

Biography

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.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Archer, T.A.. 1889. The crusade of Richard I, 1189-92. English History by Contemporary Writers, Vol. 5. GP Putnam's sons.
  2. Book: Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. 1888. 29.