Charles Edward Long

Charles Edward Long (28 July 1796 – 25 September 1861), was an English genealogist and antiquary. Born at Benham Park, Berkshire, he was the elder and only surviving son of Charles Beckford Long (d. 1836) of Langley Hall, Berkshire, and his wife, Frances Monro Tucker. He was the grandson of Edward Long, the historian of Jamaica, and nephew of Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough, and also of General Robert Ballard Long, his father's twin. Long was educated at Harrow School (1810 – 1814) and at Trinity College, Cambridge (1815 – 1819). He won the Chancellor's Gold Medal in July 1818 for English verse on the subject of imperial and papal Rome, and graduated BA in 1819 and MA in 1822. Returning from a visit to Hamburg, Long died unmarried...