Born in 1823, died in 1892; educated at Oxford, remaining
there as a fellow until 1847, and later for many years an
examiner there in Modern History; made Regius professor at
Oxford in 1884; published his "Conquest of the Saracens" in
1856, "Federal Government from the Foundation of the Achaian
League to the Disruption of the United States" in 1863, this
work being never completed; "The Norman Conquest" in
1867-79, "Historical Essays" in 1871, "Some Impressions of
the United States" in 1893, and many other volumes on
general and local history.