George Kitson Clark

George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–1975) was an English historian, a specialist in the nineteenth century.

Historian

He is known as a revisionist historian of the Repeal of the Corn Laws.[1][2][3] G. D. H. Cole identified a "Kitson Clark" school of historians revising the assessment of the Anti-Corn Law League and the Chartists.[4]

He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He lived the life of a bachelor don as Fellow of Trinity, from 1922 to 1975. He was Reader in Constitutional History from 1954 to 1967.[5]

Jack Plumb, who disliked Kitson Clark, describes him as a reformer of the History Tripos,[6] and obstacle to Lewis Namier,[7] with various swipes .

Family

He was the son of the engineer Edwin Kitson Clark, and brother of Mary Kitson Clark.[8]

Works

References

Notes

  1. G. S. R. Kitson Clark, The Electorate and the Repeal of the Corn Laws, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Ser., Vol. 1, 1951 (1951), pp. 109-126.
  2. G. Kitson Clark, Hunger and Politics in 1842, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 25, No. 4 (December 1953), pp. 355-374.
  3. E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 (2004), p. 249.
  4. Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell, The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League (2000), p. 4.
  5. Maurice Cowling, Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England (1980), p. 197.
  6. J. H. Plumb, The Making of An Historian I, p. 164-5.
  7. Plumb, pp. 98-9.
  8. Obituary, Mary Kitson Clark
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