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William Edward Hartpole Lecky was born at Newtown Park, near Dublin, on the 26th of March 1838, being the eldest son of John Hartpole Lecky, whose family had for many generations been landowners in Ireland.
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky was born at Newtown Park, near Dublin, on the 26th of March 1838, being the eldest son of John Hartpole Lecky, whose family had for many generations been landowners in Ireland.
Family wanderings during his childhood gave him a varied education at Kingstown, the Royal School at Armagh, Cheltenham, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1859 and his master of arts degree in 1863.
An indifferent student, he appears to have benefited much more from the wide range of reading in which he engaged to satisfy his own eclectic interests than from the inspiration of formal academic study.
In 1861 he published Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, a brief sketch of the lives and work of Swift, Flood, Grattan and O'Connell, which gave decided promise of his later admirable work in the same field.
This book, originally published anonymously, was republished in 1871; and the essay on Swift, rewritten and amplified, appeared again in 1897 as an introduction to a new edition of Swift's works.
Lecky's reputation as historian and essayist was finally secured with the publication of his History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism (1865) and the History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne (1869).
Some criticism was aroused by these books, especially by the last named, with its opening dissertation on " the natural history of morals, " but both have been generally accepted as acute and suggestive commentaries upon a wide range of facts.
His object was " to disengage from the great mass of facts those which relate to the permanent forces of the nation, or which indicate some of the more enduring features of national life, " and in the carrying out of this task Lecky displays many of the qualities of a great historian.
The work is distinguished by the lucidity of its style, but the fulness and extent of the authorities referred to, and, above all, by the judicial impartiality maintained by the author throughout.
(frequently reprinted) this part of the work is separated from the rest, and occupies five volumes under the title of A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century.
A volume of Poems, published in 1891, was characterized by a certain frigidity and by occasional lapses into commonplace, objections which may also be fairly urged against much of Lecky's prose-writing.
The somewhat gloomy conclusions at which he arrived provoked much criticism both in Great Britain and America, which was renewed when he published in a new editionan elaborate and very depreciatory estimate of Gladstone, then recently dead.
This work, though essentially different from the author's purely historical writings, has many of their merits, though it was inevitable that other minds should take a different view of the evidence.
In 1903 he published a revised and greatly enlarged edition of Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland, in two volumes, from which the essay on Swift was omitted and that on O'Connell was expanded into a complete biography of the great advocate of repeal of the Union.
A happy marriage and a successful career were capped in his last years by entry into Parliament, where as a Liberal Unionist he opposed the separatism of the Irish home rule movement.
His major work was an eight-volume History of England during the Eighteenth Century. Lecky's magisterial study, whose twelfth and final volume appeared in 1890, occupied his unremitting attention during all the mature years of his scholarly life.
The work finally took form in two parts-seven volumes on England and five on Ireland.
Like his contemporary John Richard Green, he helped to reorient the purposes of 19th-century historical writing away from politics and diplomatics.
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William Edward Hartpole Lecky William Edward Hartpole Lecky, an Irish historian and essayist of classic Whig proclivities, was perhaps the greatest historical scholar Ireland ever produced.
The last major work of his life was a two-volume historical-political essay entitled Democracy and Liberty (1896), in which he, like many another Victorian intellectual, gave voice to some of his doubts about the growing democratic tendencies of his age.
Always suspicious of democracy, he deplored the evils of excess in religion or nationalism; at the same time he was acutely and somewhat pessimistically aware of the importance of mass social influences and ideas in history.
In 1895, he was returned to parliament as Unionist member for Dublin University in a by-election.
In 1897, he was made a privy councillor. In the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902, he was nominated an original member of the new Order of Merit (OM).
Lecky was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1891.
He married in 1871 Elizabeth, baroness de Dedem, daughter of baron de Dedem, a general in the Dutch service, but had no children.
