Henry thomas buckle biography

​BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS (1821–1862), English historian, author of the History of Civilization, the son of Thomas Henry Buckle, a wealthy London merchant, was born at Lee, in Kent, on the 24th of November 1821.

Henry Thomas Buckle was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization and a strong amateur chess player.

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Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November – 29 May ) was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization and a strong amateur chess.

​BUCKLE, HENRY THOMAS (–), historian of civilisation, was born 24 Nov. The Buckle family had long been settled in London.

Henry Thomas Buckle, the English historian, was the son of a prosperous businessman who left him sufficient money to devote his life to private study and.

Owing to his delicate health he was only a very short time at school, and never at college, but the love of reading having been early awakened in him, he was allowed ample means of gratifying it. He gained his first distinctions not in literature but in chess, being reputed, before he was twenty, one of the first players in the world.

After his father’s death in January 1840 he spent some time with his mother on the continent (1840–1844). He had by that time formed the resolution to direct all his reading and to devote all his energies to the preparation of some great historical work, and during the next seventeen years he bestowed ten hours each day in working out his purpose.

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