Background
HOLT, James was born on April 26, 1922 in Bradford, Yorkshire. Son of the late Herbert Holt and Eunice Holt.
historian and university professor
HOLT, James was born on April 26, 1922 in Bradford, Yorkshire. Son of the late Herbert Holt and Eunice Holt.
Bradford Grammar School and Queen"s College Oxford.
Served in army 1942-1945. Harmsworth Senior Scholar, Merton College Oxford 1947-1949. Lecturer, University of Nottingham 1949-1962, Professor, of Medieval History 1962-1966.
Professor, of History, University of Reading 1966-1978, Dean of Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences 1972-1976.
Professorial Fellow, Emmanuel College Cambridge 1978-1981, Professor of Medieval History, Cambridge University 1978-1988, Master of Fitzwilliam College Cambridge 1981-1988. Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America 1977.
Visiting Hinkley Professor, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America 1983. Raleigh Lecturer, British Academy 1975.
Visiting Professor Japan 1986.
President Royal Historical Society 1980-1984. Vice-President British Academy 1986-1988. President Lincoln; Fellow, Emmanuel College since 1985, Fitzwilliam College since 1988.
Comendador de la Orden del Merito Civil 1988.
Advisory Council on Public Records 1974-1981.
Married Alice Catherine Elizabeth Suley in 1950.