Patrick Collinson
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Patrick "Pat" Collinson, CBE, FBA (10 August 1929 – 28 September 2011)[1] was an English historian, known as a writer on the Elizabethan era, particularly Elizabethan Puritanism. He was emeritus Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, having occupied the chair from 1988 to 1996. He once described himself as "an early modernist with a prime interest in the history of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."[2]