Edwin Rich (historian)

Edwin Ernest Rich^[1] (4 August 1904 – 7 July 1979)^[2] was a 20th-century historian.^[3]

Edwin Ernest Rich
Born	4 August 1904 Bristol, England
Died	7 July 1979 Heydon, England
Occupation	Historian

Education

Rich was born in Bristol. He was educated at Colston's School and Selwyn College, Cambridge. He was fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, from 1930 to 1957; Proctor of Cambridge University in 1939;^[4] Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History from 1951 to 1970; and Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge^[5] from 1957 to 1973.^[6] He died in Heydon, Cambridgeshire, in 1979.

External links

• McGill University: E. E. Rich (1964). Lectures - Montreal and the Fur Trade.

References

1. NPG details
2. World Cat
3. Amongst others he wrote "The Staple Court Books of Bristol", 1934; "Ordinances of the Merchants of the Staple", 1935; "The Hudson's Bay Company, 1670–1870", 1959; " Montreal and the Fur Trade", 1966; and "The Fur Trade and the Northwest", 1967 > British Library web site accessed 14 December 2018
4. University web-site
5. Masters of St Catherine's
6. "Daly, Henry Varian". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2016 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 14 December 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)