Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923

Oscar Browning (1837-1923), historian, was born in London on 17 January 1837. He attended Eton from 1850, and entered King's College, Cambridge, in 1856, where he became a fellow in 1859. He was assistant master at Eton, 1860-1875, before returning to King's, where he was appointed a lecturer in history in 1880. He became a university lecturer in 1883, and was principal of the Cambridge University day training college for teachers, which he was chiefly responsible for founding, 1891-1909. He left Cambridge in 1908, and settled in Rome, where he died on 6 October 1923.

From the guide to the Oscar Browning: Life of George Eliot, 1889, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

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