Gerald Aylmer
| Gerald Aylmer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Gerald Edward Aylmer 30 April 1926 Greete, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 17 December 2000 (aged 74) Oxford, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Parent(s) | Edward Arthur Aylmer, Phoebe Evans |
Gerald Edward Aylmer, FBA (30 April 1926, Greete, Shropshire – 17 December 2000, Oxford) was an English historian of seventeenth-century England.
Gerald Aylmer was the only child of Edward Arthur Aylmer, from an Anglo-Irish naval family, and Phoebe Evans. A great-uncle was Lord Desborough. Educated at Beaudesert Park School and Winchester College, he went up to Balliol College, Oxford for a term before volunteering for the Navy, where he was a shipmate of George Melly. Returning to Balliol, he was tutored by Christopher Hill. He graduated in 1950, spent a year at Princeton University and completed his thesis, 'Studies on the Institutions and Personnel of English Central Administration, 1625–42' (1954) as a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol. The thesis, in two volumes, was 1208 pages long: the Modern History Board subsequently introduced a word-limit.)
In 1954, Alymer went to Manchester University as an assistant lecturer, and in the following year married Ursula Nixon. Appointed lecturer at Manchester in 1962, he was then invited, aged 36, to become the first Professor of History at University of York. In 1979, he returned to Oxford as Master of St Peter's College, presiding over an improvement in academic performance at the college, increased endowment and building extensions before retiring in 1991. He remained an active publisher for the remaining nine years of his life before dying in hospital following what appeared to be routine surgery.
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