Elton, Geoffrey Rudolph (1921–1994)

Czechoslovakian-born British historian. During World War II he worked in intelligence before teaching at Cambridge University from 1949 and becoming Regius Professor of History in 1983. His reputation was made through his study of the Tudor monarchs of England and the ‘Tudor revolution’ in government in the 1530s. He has since written a series of books on this and related subjects, the most well-known being England under the Tudors and The Practice of History.