E. I. Carlyle

British author and historian

Edward Irving Carlyle (15 September 1871 – 9 February 1952)^[1] was a British author and historian.

He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, where he was a Casberd scholar. He graduated in 1894 and was appointed assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. He relinquished this role after being elected a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1901. He then served at Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1907 until he retired in 1944.^[1][2]

In 1904 he published a sympathetic biography of William Cobbett and he also contributed histories of British South Africa, East Africa and West Africa to Albert Pollard's 1909 work The British Empire.^[2]

He married Susan Mary Catherine née Hockin in 1913, with who he had a son and two daughters.^[1][2]

Works

• William Cobbett: A Study of His Life as Shown in His Writings (1904).

Notes

1. Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 23.
2. ‘Mr. E. I. Carlyle’, The Times (13 February 1952), p. 8.