Reginald Coupland

Sir Reginald Coupland KCMG CIE FBA (2 August 1884 – 6 November 1952) was an English historian of the British Empire. Between 1920 and 1948, he held the Beit Professorship of Colonial History at the University of Oxford.[1]

Coupland is known for his scholarship on African history, as a member of the 1923–1924 Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India, and as an influential member of the 1936–1937 Peel Commission, a royal commission on Mandatory Palestine. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1948.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b May, Alex. "Coupland, Sir Reginald". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32585. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Kessler, Oren (March 2020). "Mandate100 | 'A Clean Cut' for Palestine: The Peel Commission Reexamined". Fathom. Retrieved 3 October 2022.