Edward H. R. (Edward Henry Ralph) Tatham

Edward Henry Ralph Tatham (1857–1938) was an English clergyman and author. Records for his published work consistently identify him by his full name, and library and public-domain sources place his life between 1857 and 1938.

His best-known books include John Sobieski: Lothian Prize Essay for 1881 and the later two-volume Francesco Petrarca, the First Modern Man of Letters, published in the mid-1920s. Those works suggest a writer drawn to historical figures who stood at important cultural turning points, especially in European history.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his clerical vocation and bibliography appears to be scarce in the sources available here, so it is safest to remember him as a scholar-clergyman whose surviving reputation rests mainly on his historical and literary studies.