Paying Tribute to Patrick Collinson
Anthony Fletcher pays tribute to the great historian of English protestantism, who ventured far and wide in the academic world.
Patrick Collinson, CBE, who died on September 28th at the age of 82, was the most distinguished religious historian of his generation. Adventurous by nature, his career never stood still. Twice he undertook challenging overseas appointments, at the University of Khartoum from 1956 to 1961 and the University of Sydney, where he was Professor of History from 1969 to 1976. He held chairs at the University of Kent at Canterbury from 1976 to1984 and the University of Sheffield from 1984 to 1988, before becoming Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge in 1988, a position he held until his retirement in 1996.
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