Geoffrey Elton
Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the Tudor period. He taught at Clare College, Cambridge, and was the Regius Professor of Modern History there from 1983 to 1988. Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (d. 1994)
17 August 1921
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