Born Frome, Somerset, 28 July 1860; e s of late Joseph Tanner, Frome; m 1888, Charlotte Maria, 2nd d of late George J. Larkman of Belton; died 15 Jan. 1931 Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, since 1886. Mill Hill School; St John's College, Cambridge; 2nd in First Class of the Historical Tripos, 1882. Bursar of St. John's, an expert on Samuel Pepys. President of the University Union Society, Easter Term, 1883. Resided forty-two years in Cambridge; Lecturer on History at St John's College, 1883–1921; Lecturer on Indian History to Indian Civil Service Students, 1885–93; Assistant Tutor of St John's College, 1895–1900; Tutor, 1900–12; Tutorial Bursar, 1900–21; Treasurer of the University Union Society, 1902–15; member of Council of the University, 1907–20; Deputy for the Regius Professor of Modern History, 1926–27 Hollond's Discourses of the Navy, 1896; Pepys's Naval Minutes, 1926; and vols i-iv, 1903–1925, of a Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval MSS in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, all edited for the Navy Records Society; contributions on the Dutch Wars to the Cambridge Modern History; edited Oxford reprint of Pepys's Memoirs of the Royal Navy, 1906; Bibliotheca Pepysiana, part I (Sea MSS), 1914; An Historical Register of the University of Cambridge, 1917; joint editor of the Cambridge Medieval History since 1918; Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy (Lees Knowles Lectures for 1919), 1920; Tudor Constitutional Documents, 1485–1603, 1922; Mr Pepys, an Introduction to the Diary, 1925; Private Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1679–1703, 1926; English Constitutional Conflicts, 1603–1689, 1928; Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1662–1679, 1929; Constitutional Documents of the Reign of James I, 1930; occasional papers, mainly historical

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