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Lawrence Arthur Burd FRHistS FRPSL (sometimes "Laurence"; 1 June 1863 – 12 April 1931)〔Obituaries: Mr. L.A. Burd. in ''The Times'', 9 May 1931, p. 14. Retrieved 9 May 2014.〕 was a British public school teacher, expert on the works of Niccolò Machiavelli, and noted philatelist. ==Education and career== Burd was educated at Clifton College under Dr. Percival and attended Balliol College, Oxford. He received his B.A. in 1885 and his M.A. in 1888.〔Messiter, G.S. (Mrs) (Ed.) (''Repton School Register: Supplement to 1910 Edition'' ). London, 1922, p. x.〕 He spent a year travelling as a tutor to Lord Acton's son and in 1886 joined the teaching staff of Repton School where he stayed until he retired in 1923, becoming the Classical Sixth Form master.〔〔"Occasional Notes" in ''The London Philatelist'', Vol. 40, No. 472, April 1931, p. 88.〕 He stocked, almost from scratch, the school library there, making it one of the best in the country,〔 and the Repton library building is still known as the The Burd Library. Burd remained an active historical scholar throughout his teaching career. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and he produced a new edited edition of Machiavelli's ''Il Principe'' (''The Prince'') (1891) which was highly praised in ''The English Historical Review'' and described as leaving nothing to be desired.〔"''Il Principe by Niccolò Machiavelli'' by L. Arthur Burd; ''Life and Times of Niccolò Machiavelli'' by Pasquale Villari" Reviews by M. Petriburg in ''The English Historical Review'', Vol. 7, No. 26 (Apr., 1892), pp. 354–357.〕 He also wrote the chapter on "Florence and Machiavelli" in Lord Acton's〔"(Lord Acton and the Plan of the Cambridge Modern History )" by Josef L. Altholz in ''The Historical Journal'', Vol. 39, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 723-736.〕 ''The Cambridge Modern History'' (Volume 1, 1902).〔
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