Froude (Frood), James Anthony. An English essayist and historian. Froude was born in Devonshire in 1881 and educated at Oxford. In 1849 appeared from his pen that remarkable book, "The Nemesis of Faith." His reputation, however, rests chiefly on his "History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada." Froude died in 1894.

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