Edward Augustus Freeman

Edward Augustus Freeman was an English historian, architectural artist, liberal politician during the late-19th-century heyday of William Gladstone, and a one-time candidate for Parliament. He held the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, where he tutored Arthur Evans; later he and Evans would be activists in the Balkan uprising of Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Ottoman Empire. After the marriage of his daughter, Margaret, to Evans, he and Evans collaborated on the 4th volume of his History of Sicily. He was a prolific writer, publishing 239 distinct works. One of... his best known is History of the Norman Conquest . Both he and Margaret died before Evans purchased the land from which he would excavate the Palace of Knossos. Freeman was born at Metchley Abbey in Harborne, now a suburb of Birmingham. His parents, John Freeman and Mary Ann , used the name of the month in which he was born as a middle name. They were a family of modest means; however, the paternal grandfather, Joseph Freeman, had been a wealthy man, and the owner of Pedmore Hall.
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