Seeley

Seeley, SIR JOHN ROBERT (b. 1834), historian, was educated at University College, London, and at Cambridge, where he was Senior Classic and elected to a Fellowship at Christ's College in 1858. He became professor of Latin at Univetsity College, London, in 1863, and professor of modern history at Cambridge in 1869. His remarkable Ecce Homo (1865) and Natural Religion (1882) were published anonymously, and caused much. discussion: In 1871 he published his valuable edition of Livy, and, besides numerous learned historical articles, wrote other admirable works. His Expansion of England (1883) did much to promote a feeling for the unity of the Empire. He died in 1895.