Previte-orton biography

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        2. Charles William Previté-Orton (), historian, was born at Arnesby in Leicestershire on 16 January In he entered his father's old college of.
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        4. Charles William Previté-Orton FBA was a British medieval historian and the first Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge on the establishment of the position in
        5. "Orton, Charles William Previté- (–), historian" published on by Oxford University Press.

          6. Charles Previté-Orton

          British medieval historian and Cambridge Professor of Medieval History (1877-1947)

          Charles William Previté-OrtonFBA (16 January 1877 – 11 March 1947) was a British medieval historian and the first Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge on the establishment of the position in 1937.[1]

          Previté-Orton was born on 16 January 1877 in Arnesby in Leicestershire, the son of William Previté (later Previté Orton), vicar of Arnesby, and Elizabeth Swaffield Orton.[2] After losing an eye at the age of 14, he was not sufficiently well to attend university until 1905 at the age of 28.

          By that time, he had already published a book of verse entitled Cinara and Other Poems (1900). A scholar of St John's College, Cambridge, he was placed in the first class of each part of the history tripos and was elected a fellow of his college in 1911, where he remained for the duration of his life.

          From 1925 to 1938 he was editor of the