Patrick Collinson
Patrick Collinson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 August 1929 |
| Died | 28 September 2011 (aged 82) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Title | Regius Professor of Modern History |
| Spouse |
Elizabeth Selwyn (m. 1960) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent | Belle Patrick |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Bethany School Huntingdon Grammar School King's School, Ely |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge University College London |
| Doctoral advisor | J. E. Neale |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University of Khartoum King's College London University of Sydney University of Kent University of Sheffield Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Doctoral students | |
| Notable students | Desmond Tutu |
| Notable works | The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967) |
Patrick "Pat" Collinson CBE FBA FAHA (10 August 1929 – 28 September 2011) was an English historian, known as a writer on the Elizabethan era, particularly Elizabethan Puritanism. He was emeritus Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, having occupied the chair from 1988 to 1996. He once described himself as "an early modernist with a prime interest in the history of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."