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Edward Spencer Beesly

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Edward Spencer Beesly (1831-1915) was an English historian, editor, and advocate of positivism.  He translated Auguste Comte into English and wrote a biography of him. Beesly also was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate to Parliament.  He is best known today for his collected lectures on Roman history, Catiline, Clodius, Tiberius (1878).