Born on April 3^rd, 1868, in Blackheath, Charles Raymond Beazley was the son of the Reverend J. Beazley. During his education, he attended prestigious British institutions, such as St. Paul’s School, King’s College London, and Balliol College (Oxford). He completed his bachelor’s degree in 1890, his master’s degree in 1893, and became D.Litt. in 1908. Shortly before finishing his bachelor, he obtained a Fellowship in History at Merton College (Oxford, 1889-1896). The following year, he became Research Fellow at the same institution, remaining there until 1909, when he joined the teacher’s department of the University of Birmingham to teach subjects in the History field.

A large part of Beazley’s teaching career was spent in Birmingham, where he lectured until 1933, although he has also joined other universities as visiting scholar. In 1894, he joined the University of Leeds for the summer semester. Already into the new century, he went to the United States of America, where he lectured in several institutions, such as the University of Massachusetts Lowell (1908). In 1913, he attended the Ilchester Lectures, at the University of Oxford, with lectures on Russian history. He went to France during the First World War, where he has worked for the Young Men’s Christian Association, and, after the war ended, became a member of the University Delegations to France (1919), cooperating with several French universities. In the 1930s, before the emergence of the Second World War, he visited Germany multiple times as visiting scholar (1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, and 1937).

Raymond Beazley was also connected with academic societies. He became member of the Royal Geographical Society, based in London, in 1893, and joined its Council from 1919 to 1923. At the turn of the twentieth century, he became correspondent member of the Sociedade Geográfica de Lisboa (Geographical Society of Lisbon), and, in 1911, by the time of the implementation of the First Portuguese Republic, became correspondent member of the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa (Academy of Sciences of Lisbon). He also became correspondent member of the Hispanic Society of America and of the Société Archéologique de France (1913). Beazley was awarded on several occasions, not only during his education but also as an established historian, namely with the Gill Memorial prize, from the Royal Geographical Society, for his work The Dawn of Modern Geography – perhaps his most acclaimed work – and for his contribution to the history of Geography.

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