William Reddaway (historian)

William Fiddian Reddaway (Middleton, Lancashire 2 August 1872 – 31 January 1949)[1] was an academic and author[2] in the very late 19th and early 20th centuries.[3]

Reddaway was educated at The Leys School and King's College, Cambridge.[4] He was a Fellow of King's from 1897; and a Tutor at Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge from 1898[5] to 1907. He was also University Lecturer in History and Director of Scandinavian Studies; and Censor of Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge from 1907 to 1924.[6]

References
  1. 'Mr. W. F. Reddaway' The Times (London, England), 1 February 1949, Issue 51294, p.6.
  2. Amongst others he wrote "The Monroe Doctrine, 1898; "The Scandinavian Kingdoms", 1908; "Modern European History", 1924; "Documents of Catherine the Great", 1931; "Marshal Pilsudski", 1939; "Frederick the Great and the rise of Prussia", 1947; and "Europe 1610–1715", 1948 > British Library web site accessed 13:34 GMT Tuesday 19 February 2019
  3. "Reddaway, William Fiddian". Who's Who. ukwhoswho.com. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Retrieved 19 February 2019. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  4. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752-1900 Vol. v. Pace – Spyers, 1953) p263
  5. 'University Intelligence' The Times (London, England), 29 January 1898, Issue 35426, p.12.
  6. British History On-line


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