J&e neale biography
J&e neale biography
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J. E. Neale
Historian and biographer
J.E. Neale | |
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| Born | John Ernest Neale ()7 December Liverpool |
| Died | 2 September () (aged&#;84) |
| Spouse | Elfreda Skelton |
| Children | 1 daughter, Stella |
Sir John Ernest NealeFBA (7 December in Liverpool &#; 2 September ) was an English historian who specialised in Elizabethan and Parliamentary history.
From to , he was the Astor Professor of English History at University College London.
Academic career
Neale was trained by the political historian A. F. Pollard.[1] His first professional appointment was the chair of Modern History at the University of Manchester, and he was then to succeed F.
C. Montague as Astor Professor of English History at University College London in He was to hold this post until [2] In , Neale was knighted, and on 17&#;November he delivered a lecture in Washington, D.C.
commemorating Elizabeth I's accession to the English throne four hundred years previously.[1] Fro