James Anthony Froude, English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (born 1818)

James Anthony Froude

English historian, novelist and biographer (1818–1894)

James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his…