GASKOIN, C. J. B.

GASKOIN, Charles Jacinth Bellairs. Ealing, Middlesex 30.7.1873 — Kensington, Middlesex 24.3.1955. British Historian. Son of son of Herman John Richard Gaskoin (1828–1907) and Catherine Anna Maclear, educated at Fitzwilliam Hall. Studies at Cambridge (Jesus College), B.A. 1898, M.A. 1902. In 1901-06 private tutor in Cambridge, 1907-16 Lecturer in History at Wren’s. War service in code department. In 1919-26 Professor of History and Economics at Queen’s College, London. From 1924-39 University Lecturer in Indian History at Cambridge. In WW II as Censor in West Indies.

Publications: Alcuin: His Life and His Work. 275 p. L. 1904; several other works on British history.

Sources: Alumni Cantabrigienses; portrait in arthuk.org; parents in WikiTree.

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