Montagu Burrows

Montagu Burrows (27 October 1819 – 10 July 1905) was a British historian. Following a career as an officer in the Royal Navy, he was the first Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, holding the Chair from 1862 until his death. He was probably the first academic to lecture on naval history at Oxford or at any university in Britain.

Early life and naval career Montagu Burrows was born in Hadley, England, the son of Lieutenant-General Montagu Burrows (1775–1848) of the British Army and his wife, Mary Ann Pafford, daughter of Captain Joseph Larcom, Royal Navy. He attended Kingsmills' Boys School in Southampton and entered the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth in 1832. In 1834, he joined HMS Andromache as a midshipman, and then returned to the college as a mate in 1842. He served on anti-piracy patrols on the East Indies Station under Henry Ducie Chads and was decorated for his service at the bombardment of Acre in 1840. Burrows became an instructor in gunnery in HMS Excellent for six years from 1846. Promoted to Commander in 1852, he decided to study at Oxford and was placed on half-pay.

Personal life Burrows married Mary Anna, third daughter of Sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner, 3rd Baronet, of Roche Court, Fareham, on 13 September 1849. They had three sons: Edward Henry (b. 1851), Stephen Montagu (b. 1856) and Alfred (b. 1860); and one daughter, Frances Emily (b. 1853) who married Charles Perry Scott, the Bishop of North China.

Death Burrows died on 10 July 1905 in Oxford, aged 85. Published works

Pitcairn's Island: a Lecture (1853) Pass and Class, an Oxford Guide-Book through the Courses of Literæ Humaniores [&c.] (1860, 1866) The Manchester Church Congress and its Probable Results: a Lecture (1863) The Relations of Church and State Historically Considered: 2 Lectures (1866) Memoir of Admiral Sir Henry Ducie Chads, by an Old Follower (M.B.) (1869) Constitutional Progress, 7 lectures (1869) Worthies of All Souls: Four Centuries of English History illustrated from the College Archives (1874) Parliament and the Church of England (1874) History of the Family of Burrows of Sydenham and Long Crendon (1877) Imperial England (1880) The Register of the Visitors of the University of Oxford, from ... 1647 to ... 1658, with some account of the state of the University during the Commonwealth (1881) Wiclif's Place in History: 3 lectures (1882) History of the Families of Larcom, Hollis, and McKinley (1883) The Life of Edward, Lord Hawke (1883, 1886, 1904) Cinque Ports (1888) Antiquarianism and History: a Lecture (1895) The Family of Brocas of Beaurepaire and Roche court (1886) The Publication of the Gascon Rolls by the British and French Governments: a Paper (1892) Commentaries on the History of England ... to 1865 (1892) The History of the Foreign Policy of Great Britain (1895, revised 1897) King Henry VIII and the Reformation: an Address (1898) King Alfred the Great. (1898) Biblical Criticism, by William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, with preface by Montagu Burrows. (1905) Autobiography, ed. by Stephen Montagu Burrows (1908)