Education
He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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George Clark
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He is known as a revisionist historian of the Repeal of the Corn Laws. G. Doctorate. H. Cole identified a "Kitson Clark" school of historians revising the assessment of the Anti-Corn Law League and the Chartists. He lived the life of a bachelor don as Fellow of Trinity, from 1922 to 1975.
He was Reader in Constitutional History from 1954 to 1967.
Jack Plumb, who disliked Kitson Clark, describes him as a reformer of the History Tripos, and obstacle to Lewis Namier, with various swipes.
