Patrick Collinson

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Patrick Collinson CBE (born August 10, 1929 in Ipswich , † September 28, 2011 ) was a British historian .

Life

Patrick Collinson was born in Ipswich in 1929 to two Christian missionaries and grew up in East Anglia and London . His parents had met in Algeria, where they were trying to convert Muslims to Christianity, and later led missions in Egypt from London . Shaped by his parents' house, Collinson was a Christian socialist all his life . He attended the King's School in Ely , did his national service in the Royal Air Force and studied at Pembroke College of University of Cambridge . From 1956 he became a lecturer at the University of Khartoum in Sudan . In addition, he received his doctorate at the University of London in 1957 . In 1961 he moved to King's College London . In 1969 he was appointed professor at the University of Sydney . In 1976 he moved to the University of Kent and 1984 to the University of Sheffield . He was then from 1988 to 1996 Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. In 2011 he published his memoir The History of a History Man .

In 1981 he lost a foot as a result of falling from a train. Collinson was married to Liz Selwyn until his death, whom he had met in Khartoum, where she had worked as a nurse. The 51-year marriage resulted in four children, two sons and two daughters. He died of cancer in September 2011 at the age of 82.

In 1993 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire . Since 1982 he has been a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy .

Publications (selection)

  • The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967)
  • Archbishop Grindal 1519-1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church (1979)
  • The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society 1559-1625 (1982)
  • Elizabeth I (2007)
  • The History of a History Man (2011)
  • Richard Bancroft and Anti-Puritanism (2013)

literature

  • Alexandra Walsham: Patrick Collinson, 1919–2011 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XIII , 2014, p. 91-118 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Collinson, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ipswich
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2011