Edgar Prestage
{{short description|British historian & Portuguese scholar (1869-1951)}}
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Edgar Prestage {{post-nominals|post-noms=GOSE}} (1869–1951) was a British historian and Portuguese scholar.{{cite ODNB | url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35607 | isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35607 | title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | year=2004 }}
Biography
Born in Manchester on 20 July 1869, he served as professor of Portuguese at King's College, London between 1923 and 1936, and had authored over a hundred publications.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924063262053/page/n212/mode/1up |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia and its Makers |publisher=The Encyclopedia Press |page=141 |year=1917 |access-date=2021-09-28 |via=archive.org}}{{cite web|title=Prestage, Professor Edgar (1869-1951)|url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/p/10pr20-1|website=King's College London Archives|accessdate=23 April 2016}} He died in London on 3 March 1951.{{Cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/obituary-clipping-apr-05-1951-2720898/ |title=Professor Edgar Prestage |newspaper=The Advocate |page=4 |date=1951-04-05 |access-date=2021-09-28 |via=NewspaperArchive}}{{Cite web |url=https://data.bnf.fr/en/10370126/edgar_prestage/ |title=Edgar Prestage (1869–1951) |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |access-date=2021-09-28}} In his obituary, he was described as "Britain's leading authority of his era on Portuguese literature and history".{{cite web|title=Obituary|url=https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2284&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIEW-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF|publisher=University of Manchester|accessdate=23 April 2016}}
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