Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (22 October 1857 – 30 April 1934) was an English historian. He was the son of Alexander Pearson Fletcher and Caroline Anna (daughter of the painter

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). From 1868 to 1876 he was

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. He gained a first class degree in modern history from

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in 1880. He was elected a Fellow of

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the year after. He was tutor of Magdalen from 1883 to 1906, becoming a Fellow in 1889. He married Alice Merry in 1885 and they had three sons.C. H. K. Marten, �
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��, rev. Richard Symonds, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 21 Sept 2015. Fletcher was a strong Conservative, imperialist and Protestant Anglican. His ''School History of England'' included 23 new poems by

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but was viewed suspiciously by the

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due to Fletcher's controversial views on foreigners and democracy. Fletcher said democracy was still on trial in Britain, and claimed that the King would be obliged to dismiss any government that tried to reduce the size of the

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or surrendered India or the colonies.

Works

''Gustavus Adolphus and the Struggle of Protestantism for Existence''
(1890)
''Introductory History of England''
5 vols. (John Murray, 1904 to 1923) – , with e-copy at

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''Mr. Gladstone at Oxford 1890''
(1908) * ''School History of England'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911), with Rudyard Kipling, illus. Henry Ford �
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with e-copy at HathiTrust *Ernest Barker, H. W. Carless Davis, C. R. L. Fletcher, Arthur Hassall, L. G. Wickham Legg, F. Morgan, ''Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case, by Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914)
''Edmond Warre''
(1922) (See

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.)
''Historical Portraits''
(1909 to 1919), with H. B. Butler and Emery Walker

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fletcher, Charles Robert Leslie 1857 births 1934 deaths 19th-century English historians People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford 20th-century English historians Historians of the University of Oxford