Edwin E. Rich

EDWIN ERNEST RICH (1907–1979), M.A., LITT. D., was named Vere Harmsworth Professor of Naval and Imperial History at Cambridge University in 1951. He was also master of St. Catharine’s College in that university. He was a fellow of Trumbull College, Yale University, and an honorary fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge University, and of Worcester College, Oxford University. Dr. Rich was born in Bristol, England and was educated at Colston’s School and at Selwyn College, Cambridge. Among E.E. Rich’s publications are: Staple Courts of Bristol (1931), Ordinances of the Merchants of Staple (1935), Hudson’s Bay Company 1670-1870 (1958-59), andMontreal and the Fur Trade (1964). Professor Rich was general editor of the Hudson’s Bay Record Society’s publications from 1937 to 1960.