English historian and academic
Geoffrey Wallis Steuart Barrow
FBA
,
FRSE
(28 November 1924 ? 14 December 2013) was an English historian and academic.
The son of Charles Embleton Barrow and Marjorie nee Stuart, Geoffrey Barrow was born on 28 November 1924, at
Headingley
near
Leeds
. He attended
St Edward's School, Oxford
, and
Inverness Royal Academy
, moving on to the
University of St Andrews
and
Pembroke College, Oxford
.
[1]
While still a student at the University of St Andrews he joined the Royal Navy. After basic training he was sent to the Royal Navy Signals School near Petersfield in Hampshire, but he was then offered the chance to go on a Japanese course. He passed an interview in the Admiralty and, as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, joined the seventh course at the secret Bedford Japanese School run by Captain
Oswald Tuck
in March 1944 for a six-month course. After completing the course he was sent to the Naval Section at the
Government Code and Cypher School
, Bletchley Park. He was later sent to H.M.S. Anderson, a naval listening and decoding centre in
Colombo
, Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
[2]
[3]
He became lecturer in history at
University College, London
in 1950, remaining there until 1961 when he became professor of medieval history at the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
, and then in 1974, professor of Scottish history at the
University of St Andrews
. He was
Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography
at the
University of Edinburgh
from 1979 to 1992.
He began his work by studying the nature of
feudalism
in
Anglo-Norman
Britain, but moved on to specialize more thoroughly on Scottish feudalism. His work tended to focus on Normanisation in
High Medieval Scotland
, especially in reference to governmental institutions.
Personal life
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He married, in 1951, Heather Elizabeth nee Lownie, with whom he had one son and one daughter.
[4]
His daughter is
Julia Barrow
, who also became an historian and academic.
[5]
Publications
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Barrow's more notable publications include:
Books
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- Feudal Britain
, (London, 1956).
- Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland
, (Edinburgh, 1965; 4th edn., 2005).
- The Kingdom of the Scots
, (London, 1973), a collection of his scholarly articles.
- Editor of
The Scottish Tradition
, (Edinburgh, 1974).
- The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History
, (Oxford, 1980).
- Kingship and Unity: Scotland, 1000?1306
, (London, 1981).
- Scotland and its Neighbours in the Middle Ages
, (London, 1992) ? another collection of his scholarly articles.
Editions of texts
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- Editor of
Acts of Malcolm IV, 1153?1165
, (Edinburgh, 1960) ?
Regesta Regum Scottorum
, vol. i.
- Co-editor (with W.W. Scott) of
Acts of William I, 1165?1214
(Edinburgh, 1971)
Regesta Regum Scottorum
, vol. ii.
- Editor of
The Charters of King David I
, (Woodbridge, 1999).
Papers
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- Barrow, G.W.S. 'Earls of Fife in the 12th Century', (
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
, 1952?53), pp. 51?61.
- Barrow, G.W.S. 'Religion in Scotland on the eve of Christianity' in
Forschungen zur Reichs-, Papst- und Landesgeschichte
, ed. Borchardt and Bunz (Stuttgart 1998) 25?32.
References
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- ^
David Torrance
(20 December 2013).
"Professor Geoffrey Barrow"
.
obituary
. The Herald & Times Group,
Glasgow
. Retrieved
10 December
2020
.
- ^
George Wallis Steuart Barrow, ‘Autobiographical memoir 1924-1946’ (unpublished)
- ^
Peter Kornicki,
Captain Oswald Tuck and the Bedford Japanese School, 1942-1945
(London: Pollino Publishing, 2019).
- ^
"BARROW ? Deaths Announcements"
.
The Daily Telegraph
. 14 December 2013
. Retrieved
18 December
2013
.
- ^
'BARROW, Prof. Julia Steuart',
Who's Who 2017
, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016
accessed 27 Sept 2017
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