Edward Potts Cheyney, A.M., LL.D. (1861–1947) was an American

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 historical and economic writer, born at Wallingford, Pennsylvania

Wallingford, Pennsylvania

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. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania

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 in 1883. He visited German

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 universities and studied at the British Museum

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. The University of Pennsylvania conferred the degree of LL.D. on him in 1911.

His writings were employed as college textbooks. They include:

• Social Changes in England in the Sixteenth Century (1896)
• Social and Industrial History of England (1901)
• Short History of England (1904)
• European Background of American History (1904)
• Readings in English History (1908)
• A History of England, from the Defeat of the Armada to the Death of Elizabeth (two volumes; volume i, 1914)

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