George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (14 June 1900 – 8 December 1975)[1] was an English historian, specialising in the nineteenth century.

Historian

George Kitson Clark 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.[2]

He is known as a revisionist historian of the Repeal of the Corn Laws.[3][4][5] G. D. H. Cole identified a "Kitson Clark" school of historians revising the assessment of the Anti-Corn Law League and the Chartists.[6] He delivered the Ford Lectures in 1959–60, speaking on "The Making of Victorian England".

Jack Plumb, who disliked Kitson Clark, describes him as a reformer of the History Tripos[7] and obstacle to Lewis Namier,[8] with various swipes.

Family

He was the son of the engineer Edwin Kitson Clark and brother of Mary Kitson Clark.[9] His paternal grandfather was E. C. Clark, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge.[1]

Works

  • Guide for Research Students Working on Historical Subjects (1958)
  • Making of Victorian England (1962)
  • Peel and the Conservative Party (1964)
  • An Expanding Society: Britain 1830-1900 (1967)
  • The Critical Historian (1967)
  • Churchmen and the Condition of England 1832–1885 (1973)
  • Portrait of an Age (1977) editor

References

  • Robert Robson (editor) (1967), Ideas and Institutions of Victorian Britain: Essays in honour of George Kitson Clark

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Clark, George Sidney Roberts Kitson (1900–1975), historian". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 10 January 2013. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31317. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ Maurice Cowling, Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England (1980), p. 197.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ G. Kitson Clark, Hunger and Politics in 1842, The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 25, No. 4 (December 1953), pp. 355-374.
  5. ↑ E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 (2004), p. 249.
  6. ↑ Paul A. Pickering, Alex Tyrrell, The People's Bread: A History of the Anti-Corn Law League (2000), p. 4.
  7. ↑ J. H. Plumb, The Making of An Historian I, p. 164-5.
  8. ↑ Plumb, pp. 98-9.
  9. ↑ Obituary, Mary Kitson Clark
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