Esme wingfield stratford biography of barack obama

English historian and writer

Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (20 September 1882 – 20 February 1971) was an English historian, writer, mind-trainer, outdoorsman, patriot and ruralist.

Life

Wingfield-Stratford was born in 1882, the elder son of Brigadier-General Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (a descendant of the ancient Stratford Family)^[1] and his wife, Rosalind Isabel, daughter of the Revd Hon.

Edward Vesey Bligh and Lady Isabel Bligh. Unhappy at Eton College (1893–1900), it was at King's College, Cambridge where he really developed, matriculating in 1900. This was followed by a research studentship at the London School of Economics.

Esme wingfield stratford biography of barack obama

His work at the LSE on what became the first volume of his History of British Patriotism (1913) led to his election in 1907 to a fellowship at King's College, Cambridge, which he retained until 1913. In the same year he was awarded the degree of DScEcon by the University of London.

After war service in Indi