- Paul Langford
Professor Paul Langford (born
November 20 ,1945 ) is a British historian and Rector ofLincoln College, Oxford .Educated at
Monmouth School andHertford College, Oxford , he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in modern history at Lincoln College in 1969, becoming a tutorial fellow in 1970. He was a university lecturer from 1971 to 1994, being elected a Reader in modern history in 1994 and a professor ofmodern history in 1996.Having served as a member of the
Humanities Research Board from 1995, he was appointed chairman and chief executive of the new Arts and Humanities Research Board in 1998, a post he held until 2000, when he returned to Oxford to take up the Rectorship of Lincoln College.He has been a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society since 1979, a Fellow of theBritish Academy since 1993 and was made an honorary Fellow of Hertford College in 2000. In 2002, theUniversity of Sheffield awarded him an honorary D.Litt..Notable publications include "A Polite and Commercial People" (OUP).
Langford married Margaret Edwards in 1970 and has one son, Hugh.
External links
* [http://www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/fellows/langford/ Lincoln College home page]
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