Edward Irving Carlyle (15 September 1871 – 9 February 1952)[1] was a British author and historian.
He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, where he was a Casberd scholar.
He graduated in 1894 and was appointed assistant editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
He relinquished this role after being elected a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, in 1901.
[2] He married Susan Mary Catherine née Hockin in 1913, with who he had a son and two daughters.