Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XIX

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional backgrounds. Taken together they build up a picture of the development of Britain's intellectual life.

List of contents

• 1: by Edwin Cameron, John Gardner, Nicola Lacey, and Detlef Liebs: Tony Honoré, 1921-2019


• 2. Denis Mack Smith, 1920-2017


• Derek Parfit, 1942-2017


• 3: by Boyd Hilton: Geoffrey Best, 1928-2018


• Barbara Hardy, 1924-2016


• 4: by Helen Hughes-Brock: Nancy Sandars, 1914-2015


• 5. Guenter Treitel, 1928-2019


• 6: by James Goudkamp: Patrick Atiyah, 1931-2018


• 7: by Philip Alexander and Martin Goodman: Geza Vermes, 1924-2013


• 8: by Christopher Pelling and Michael Winterbottom: Donald Russell, 1920-2020


• 9: by Carole Hillenbrand: Bernard Lewis, 1916-2018


• 10: by Ingrid A. R. de Smet: Ann Moss, 1938-2018


• 11. Michael Thompson, 1925-2017


• 12: by John Eekelaar and David Feldman: Stephen Cretney, 1936-2019


• 13: by Wim Blockmans: Peter Spufford, 1934-2017


• 14: by John Gray, Ian Diamond, and Fiona Steele: Harvey Goldstein, 1939-2020


• 15: by Ray Chambers, Ian Diamond, Tim Holt, Paul A. Smith, and Fiona Steele: Chris Skinner, 1953-2020


• 16: by Albert Weale: Tony King, 1934-2017


• 17: Eve V. Clark and Ruth Kempson: John Lyons, 1932-2020


• 18: David Crystal and P. H. Matthews: Frank Palmer, 1922-2019


• 19: by Anthony O'Hear: Roger Scruton, 1944-2020


• 20: by David Reynolds: Zara Steiner, 1928-2020

About the author

Ron Johnston FBA, University of Bristol

Product details

• Authors: Ron (Professor of Geography Johnston, Ron ( Johnston Fba
• Assisted by: Ron Johnston (Editor), Ron Johnston FBA (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2021
• EAN: 9780197267202
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726720-2
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Collected biographies, Memoirs, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Institutions and learned societies: general, Institutions & learned societies: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs