Boyd Hilton

Boyd Hilton
Born
Andrew John Boyd Hilton[1][2]

(1944-01-19) 19 January 1944 (age 80)
Academic work
Main interestsBritish history from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century
Notable worksA Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846

Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944)[2] is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He specialises in modern British history, from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.

Hilton was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester, and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree in Modern History. From 1969 to 1974, he was a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1974.[1]

In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an ad hominem professorship[3] and—"partly on the strength of his widely acclaimed ... volume in the New Oxford History of England"[3]—a Fellow of the British Academy.[4]

  1. ^ a b Trinity College Annual Record 2008, page 112 from Trinity Members Online at the University of Cambridge
  2. ^ a b "R03 – Authority Change Report for Hatfield Library Consortium". Mark O. Hatfield Library at Willamette University. Archived from the original (5.9MB HTML-based structured report) on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2010. Email from the author, May 4, 2010 (Andrew John Boyd Hilton, b. 19 January 1944; professor and fellow of Trinity College and the Faculty of History, Cambridge University)
  3. ^ a b Trinity College Annual Record 2008, page 6 from Trinity Members Online at the University of Cambridge
  4. ^ Boyd Hilton Archived June 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at the British Academy website.