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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