Charles Alan Fyffe (1845–1892)

English historian, born at Blackheath, Kent, December 1845; graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1868; traveled on the Continent; was at the battle of Sedan in 1870, and sent the first account of the decisive struggle to The Daily News, London. He was called to the bar in 1876, but did not practice regularly, preferring literary pursuits. He wrote a History of Greece, published in 1875 in Macmillan’s History Primers Series, and later an elaborate work, A History of Modern Europe, covering the time from the beginning of the Revolutionary War to the accession of Louis XVIII. (1880, 1890). He also published a treatise on The Land Question. He died on the 23rd of February 1892.