Edwin Rich (historian)Edwin Ernest Rich was a 20th-century historian.EducationRich was born in Bristol. He was educated at Colston's School and Selwyn College, Cambridge. He was fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, from 1930 to 1957; Proctor of Cambridge University in 1939; Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History from 1951 to 1970; and Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1957 to 1973. He died in Heydon, Cambridgeshire, in 1979.