Henry Thomas Buckle
Henry Thomas Buckle (24 November 1821 – 29 May 1862) was an English historian, the author of an unfinished History of Civilization, and a strong amateur chess player. He is sometimes called "the Father of Scientific History".
Private life
Because he was uneasy about his health, Buckle “rose, worked, walked, dined, and retired with remarkable regularity". His inheritance “enabled him to live comfortably", but he spent money prudently with two exceptions: fine cigars and his collection of 22,000 books. Buckle and his mother enjoyed giving dinners for friends and dining out. Buckle was mostly deemed to be “a good conversationalist" because of his “deep knowledge of a wide range of subjects". On the other hand, some thought him “tedious or egotistical" with a tendency “to dominate conversations". He won the first British chess tournament in 1849.
False accusation
The pornographic publisher John Camden Hotten claimed that his series of flagellation reprints The Library Illustrative of Social Progress had been taken from Buckle's collection, but this was untrue, as reported by Henry Spencer Ashbee.
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