Charles Alan Fyffe

Charles Alan Fyffe (1845–1892) was an English historian, who was also well known as a journalist and a political candidate.

He was educated at Christ's Hospital, and obtained an open exhibition at Balliol College, Oxford, 1864.

[1] In 1871, Fyffe was elected a fellow of University College, and for many years acted as the bursar.

He acted as correspondent to the Daily News during the first part of the Franco-Prussian War, and was in Paris during the commune, where he was taken for a spy.

[6] He was an unsuccessful candidate for the city of Oxford in the Radical interest at the general election of 1885.

Newspaper reports from overseas were that the charge was of improper assault; John Richard Robinson appeared as a witness for Fyffe.

[8][9] Fyffe did not recover from his suicide attempt, and died on 19 February 1892 at Laughton Hall, Edinburgh.