Born 1873; educated King Edward's School, Birmingham, and King's College, London; Assistant Lecturer in Physics, King's College London; Lecturer in Imperial and Colonial History, King's College London, 1914-1918; Rhodes Lecturer, University and King's College, London, 1914-1918; Secretary of Imperial Studies Committee, University of London, 1914-1918; Organiser of Imperial Studies Committee, Royal Empire Society, 1914; visited universities of the US and the British Dominions under the auspices of the Universities Bureau of Empire and the Institute of International Education, 1919-1920; Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, 1920-1938; member of the Governing Committee of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 1921; Vice-President of the Historical Association, since 1924; Vice-President, Royal Historical Society; Visiting Professor in the University of the Punjab and Reader in the University of Calcutta, India, 1928-1929; retired 1938; died 1942.
Publications: The principals of training for historical investigation (Calcutta, 1929); The establishment of responsible government in Cape Colony, 1870-1872 ; A short history of British colonial policy revised by Newton (Methuen and Co, London, 1932); editor of Vols 41-43 of Calendar of state papers, colonial series (London, 1860-); The English-American (Routledge and Sons, London, 1928); introduction to Letters from early New Zealand (Private, Plymouth, 1936); editor of Imperial studies (London, 1927-); editor of The Empire and the future. A series of Imperial Studies lectures delivered in the University of London, King's College (Macmillan and Co, London, 1916); A hundred years of the British Empire (Duckworth, London, 1940); A junior history of the British Commonwealth and Empire (Blackie and Son, London and Glasgow, 1933); An introduction to the study of colonial history (1919); editor of Federal and unified constitutions. A collection of constitutional documents for the use of students (London, 1923); Newfoundland to 1783 (1930); editor of Select documents relating to the unification of South Africa (Frank Cass and Co, London, 1968); The beginnings of English colonisation, 1569-1618 ; The British Empire to 1783 (Methuen and Co, London, 1935); The colonising activities of the English puritans (1914); The European nations in the West Indies, 1493-1688 (A and C Black, London, 1933); editor of The great age of discovery (University of London Press, London, 1932); editor of The Imperial Studies series (J.M. Dent and Sons, London and Toronto, 1917-1919); The old Empire and the new (1917); editor of The sea commonwealth and other papers (1919); editor of The staple trades of the Empire (1918); The universities and educational systems of the British Empire (W Collins Sons and Co, London, [1924]); editor of Travel and travellers of the Middle Ages (Kegan Paul and Co, London, 1926); United States and colonial developments, 1815-1846: Anglo-American relations during the Civil War (1923); The British Empire since 1783 (Methuen and Co, London, 1929); editor of Empire builders (1920); editor of The Cambridge history of the British Empire (University Press, Cambridge, 1929-1959); Calendar of the manuscripts of Major-General Lord Sackville...preserved at Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent (London, 1940-).
