Boyd Hilton
Boyd Hilton | |
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| Born | Andrew John Boyd Hilton 19 January 1944 |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | British history from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century |
| Notable works | A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846 |
Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944) is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialises in modern British history, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.
Hilton was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester, and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree in Modern History. From 1969 to 1974, he was a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1974.
In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an ad hominem professorship and—"partly on the strength of his widely acclaimed ... volume in the New Oxford History of England"—a Fellow of the British Academy.