Victoria Cobb LATER Prestage

Miss; Mrs Victoria Cobb LATER Prestage
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Residence	16 Holland Street, Kensington, W8
Society Membership membership ordinary fellow left 1929 last listed elected_AI 1923.12.11

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House Notes

1923.11.20 proposed by M.A. Murray, seconded by C.G. Selgiman
1925 now Mrs Prestage

Notes From Elsewhere

Edgar Prestage was born on July 20, 1869 in High Wycombe. Educated in the colleges of Oxford, he converted to Catholicism at the age of 16. In 1891, following the British Ultimatum, he visited Portugal for the first time, in which it would be the first of many other visits, where he developed countless historical searches in the national archives. In that decade, he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, emphasizing that until then he had not produced any significant work. In 1907, he married Cristina, the only daughter of Amália Vaz de Carvalho, a widow of the Portuguese-Brazilian poet Gonçalves Crespo. During the last years of World War I, he served as attaché of the British embassy culture in Lisbon. In 1923, five years after having widowed, he married Victoria Cobb, whose father had a strong connection, several generations ago, with the city of Porto. That same year, he assumed the position of professor of the Portuguese "CamÃμesÂ" discipline at Kings College of the University of London, which he held until 1936. This consisted of the publication and publication of lectures on literature and Portuguese history. Prestage, played a pioneering role in Portuguese-Brazilian studies, to a point little taken into account in the United Kingdom. He died on March 10, 1951.