Charles Edward Long
Charles Edward Long(28 July 1796 – 25 September 1861), was anEnglishgenealogistandantiquary.
Life[edit]
Born at Benham Park,Berkshire,he was the elder and only surviving son of Charles Beckford Long (d. 1836) of Langley Hall, Berkshire, and his wife, Frances Monro Tucker. He was the grandson ofEdward Long,the historian ofJamaica,a cousin ofCharles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough,and nephew of GeneralRobert Ballard Long,his father's twin. Long was educated atHarrow School(1810 – 1814) and atTrinity College, Cambridge(1815 – 1819).[1]He won theChancellor's Gold Medalin July 1818 for English verse on the subject of imperial and papal Rome,[2]and graduatedBAin 1819 andMAin 1822.
Returning from a visit toHamburg,Long died unmarried on 25 September 1861 at the Lord Warden Hotel,Dover.He was buried in the churchyard atSeale, Surrey.
Works[edit]
Possessed of an ample fortune, Long's devotion to historical and genealogical studies were greatly facilitated by access to the College of Heralds granted him by theDeputy Earl Marshal,Lord Henry Thomas Molyneux Howard- his uncle by marriage. Long always maintained a personal and scholarly interest in Harrow and in 1849 assisted George Butler in his biographical notes of Harrow scholars. In 1860 he wrote for the Harrow Gazette an article on the life ofJohn Lyon,the founder of the school. Descended from theLong family of Wiltshire,he also took a considerable interest in the history of that county: he was an earnest promoter of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society, and contributed to its magazine. He was for many years a frequent correspondent of theGentleman's Magazine,and the leading antiquarian periodicals of his day. In 1845 with the assistance of theGarter King of Arms,Sir Charles George Young,Long compiled a volume calledRoyal descents: a genealogical list of the several persons entitled to quarter the arms of the royal houses of EnglandIn 1859 from the original manuscript in theBritish Museum,he edited for theCamden Society,theDiary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the Great Civil War, Kept byRichard Symonds.He presented hisGenealogical collections of Jamaica families,to the British Museum. During 1857–9 he also gave to the museum many valuable documents relating to Jamaica, also preserved in the British Library are his letters toJoseph Hunter,extending from 1847 to 1859. Amongst many other of Long's publications, notable is his pamphlet of 1832 in which he defends the conduct of his uncle Robert Ballard Long during the campaign of 1811; and also his 1824 volumeConsiderations on the Game Laws,in which he offered an argument for regarding game as property, thereby allowing its sale to become a legal transaction.
References[edit]
- ^"Long, Charles Edward (LN815CE)".A Cambridge Alumni Database.University of Cambridge.
- ^University of Cambridge (1859).A Complete Collection of the English Poems which Have Obtained the Chancellor's Gold Medal in the University of Cambridge(PDF).Cambridge: W. Metcalfe.Retrieved1 October2008.
- Erben, Michael. "Long, Charles Edward".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16963.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
Further reading[edit]
- Symonds, Richard(1859).Long, Charles Edward(ed.).Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army During the Great Civil War.London: Camden Society.Retrieved4 August2018.
- Nicol, Cheryl (2016).Inheriting the Earth: The Long Family's 500 Year Reign in Wiltshire.Hobnob Press.ISBN978-1906978372.
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