Thomas Andrew Archer


Thomas Andrew Archer, M.A.Oxon. was an English historian of the Crusades.

Biography

Archer was baptised on 18 October 1853 in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. He matriculated at the University of Oxford in February 1876 and graduated there B.A. in 1880.
He contributed over 100 articles to the Dictionary of National Biography, 5 articles to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and articles to learned journals such as the English Historical Review. With Charles Lethbridge Kingsford he published in 1894 a book on the Crusades as part of the "History of the Nations" published by T. Fisher Unwin.