Edward Augustus Freeman, an English author, born at Harborne, Staffordshire, in 1823. He was educated at Trinity college, Oxford, where he filled the office of examiner in law and modern history in 1857-'8 and in 1863-'4. He has published "History of Architecture" (1849);Essay onWindow Tracery" (1850);

"Architecture of Llandaff Cathedral" (1851);

" History and Conquest of the Saracens" (1856);Ancient Greece and Mediaeval Italy" (in "Oxford Essays" for 1858); History of Federal Government" (vol. i., 1863);History of the Norman Conquest," his chief work (4 vols., 1867-72, to be completed by a fifth volume);Old English History" (1869);

"History of the Cathedral Church of Wells" (1870); Historical Essays" (1871; 2d series, 1873);"Growth of 'the English Constitution" (1872); and Comparative Politics (1873).