Stanley Bindoff

Stanley Thomas Bindoff (8 April 1908 – 23 December 1980) was an English historian who specialised in the Tudor and Elizabethan periods. He was the first professor of history at Queen Mary College, University of London. He was the editor of The History of Parliament for the parliaments of 1509–1558, published in 1982.^[1][2]

Stanley Bindoff
Born	Stanley Thomas Bindoff (1908-04-08)8 April 1908 Hove, England
Died	23 December 1980(1980-12-23) (aged 72) Surbiton, London, England
Occupation(s)	Historian and academic
Known for	Tudor England (1950)
Spouse	Marjorie Blatcher ​ ​ (m. 1938; died 1979)​
Children	2
Academic background
Education	Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School
Alma mater	University College London
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Early modern Britain History of parliamentarism Political history
Institutions	Queen Mary, University of London
Doctoral students	Eric Ives Marcus Merriman

Background

Bindoff was born in Hove on 8 April 1908. He was educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School and University College London.^[3]

Career

Bindoff is best known for his book Tudor England, which R. H. Tawney stated "deserves to become a classic" upon its publication in 1950. Its enduring appeal compared to the other works in the Pelican History of England series derived, for William Lamont, from Bindoff's understanding of Tudor politics as "essentially trivial".^[4] He supervised many graduate students, Eric Ives^[5] and Marcus Merriman^[6] among them.

Personal life and death

In 1938, Bindoff married Marjorie Blatcher, with whom he had two children; she died in 1979.^[3] Bindoff died from bronchopneumonia the following year, on 23 December 1980, in Surbiton; he was 72.^[3][7] A lecture series in Bindoff's name at Queen Mary was inaugurated by his colleague Eric Hobsbawm in 1990.^[8]

Selected publications

• Geyl, Pieter. The Netherlands Divided, 1609–1648 ... (Based on Geschiedenis van de Nederlandsche Stam.) Williams & Norgate, London, 1936. (Translator)
• The Scheldt Question to 1839, etc. G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1945.
• Ket's Rebellion 1549. George Philip & Son, London, 1949.
• Tudor England. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1950. (Pelican History of England, vol. 5) LCCN 67-35446
• The fame of Sir Thomas Gresham. Jonathan Cape, London, 1973. (Neale lecture in English history No. 4) ISBN 0224009281
• The House of Commons, 1509–1558. Secker & Warburg, London, 1982. (Editor)