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Osmund Airy
(1845–1928) was an English historian who specialised in early modern Great Britain and Ireland and especially
Charles II
and the
Restoration
.
He was born in October 1845 at the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
, the youngest son of Sir
George Biddell Airy
, the
Astronomer Royal
. He was educated at
Blackheath Proprietary School
and
Trinity College, Cambridge
. He briefly served as an assistant at Blackheath before he joined the staff at
Wellington
where he stayed until 1876, when he was appointed as an Inspector of Schools. In 1904 he became a divisional inspector, retiring in 1910.
He edited the first part of
Gilbert Burnet
's ''History of His Own Time'' that concerns the reign of
Charles II
and published it in two volumes.
His son was
James Airy
, a cricketer and soldier who was killed in the
Irish War of Independence
.
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