This seems odd when one recalls that he wrote poetry longer than any other major English poet: `` Domicilium '' is dated `` between 1857 and 1860 '' ; ;

The medieval English poet Chaucer describes his student as being happy by having

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet ( d. 1892 )

* 1889 – John Middleton Murry, English poet ( d. 1957 )

* 1631 – John Dryden, English poet and playwright ( d. 1700 )

* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet ( d. 1683 )

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 1867 – Ernest Dowson, English poet ( d. 1900 )

* 1887 – Rupert Brooke, English poet ( d. 1915 )

* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

* Adrian Mitchell ( 1932 – 2008 ), English poet, novelist and playwright

* 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )

* 1880 – Radclyffe Hall, English poet, novelist, and activist ( d. 1943 )

* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

* 1906 – John Betjeman, English poet ( d. 1984 )

* 1844 – Edward Carpenter, English poet ( d. 1929 )

He befriended English poet Matthew Arnold and English philosopher Herbert Spencer as well as being in correspondence and acquaintance with most of the U. S. Presidents, statesmen, and notable writers.

* 1878 – Oliver W. F. Lodge, English poet and writer ( d. 1955 )

* 1869 – Laurence Binyon, English poet ( d. 1943 )

* 1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet ( d. 1822 )

* 1930 – Robert Bridges, English poet ( b. 1844 )

In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.

* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1882 – Gisela Richter, English archaeologist and historian ( d. 1972 )

* 1597 – Roger Twysden, English historian and politician ( d. 1672 )

* 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian ( d. 1883 )

* 1889 – Arnold Joseph Toynbee, English historian ( d. 1975 )

* 1911 – A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian ( d. 1993 )

The 20th-century historian Frank Stenton said of the Anglo-Saxon chronicler that " his inaccuracy is more than compensated by his preservation of the English title applied to these outstanding kings ".

" English historian A. J. P.

Indeed John Morris, the English historian who specialized in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain, suggested in his book The Age of Arthur that as the descendants of Romanized Britons looked back to a golden age of peace and prosperity under Rome, the name " Camelot " of Arthurian legend may have referred to the capital of Britannia ( Camulodunum, modern Colchester ) in Roman times.

* 1678 – Daniel Neal, English historian ( d. 1743 )

( Incidentally, the date of Easter itself is fixed by an approximation of lunar cycles used in the Hebraic calendar, but according to the historian Bede the English name " Easter " comes from a pagan celebration by the Germanic tribes of the vernal ( spring ) equinox.

Edward Gibbon ( 27 April 173716 January 1794 ) was an English historian and Member of Parliament.

* 1912 – John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian ( d. 2003 )

* 1876 – George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian ( d. 1962 )

* 1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian ( d. 1674 )

The Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle suggested somewhat more serious English names in his 1837 work The French Revolution: A History, namely Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious, Snowous, Rainous, Windous, Buddal, Floweral, Meadowal, Reapidor, Heatidor, and Fruitidor.

During the Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt trial it became evident that the court need to identify what was an " objective historian " in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of " the man on the Clapham omnibus ".

Often called " the first modern historian ", the English scholar Edward Gibbon wrote his magnum opus, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( 1776 – 1788 ).

* 1914 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian ( d. 2003 )

* 1922 – Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer ( d. 1986 )

* 1909 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian ( d. 1993 )

* 1931 – Eric Ives, English historian ( d. 2012 )

* 1794 – Edward Gibbon, English historian ( b. 1737 )