Cecil Headlam

Educated at Rugby School and Magdalen College, Oxford, Cecil Headlam was an English writer born in 1872 who published across an unusually wide range of subjects. In addition to literary work, he was also a first-class cricketer for Oxford University and Middlesex, a mix of interests that gives his career a distinctive Edwardian flavor.

As an author, he is especially remembered for travel and history books such as The Story of Nuremberg, Oxford & Neighbouring Churches, and Provence and Languedoc. He also edited and compiled other works, including material connected with his brother Walter Headlam, showing a strong interest in literature as well as place, architecture, and the past.

Headlam died in 1934. Surviving reference sources confirm the outlines of a productive career in writing and scholarship, though readily available biographical detail is fairly limited, which makes the books themselves the best introduction to his world.