Paul Langford

Background

Langford, Paul was born on November 20, 1945. Son of Frederick Wade Langford and Olive Myrtle Walters.

Education

Bachelor, Oxford University, England, 1967. Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, England, 1971.

Doctor of Letters (honorary), Sheffield University, England.

Career

From 2000 until late 2012 he was the rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, succeeded by professor Henry Woudhuysen. Educated at Monmouth School and Hertford College, Oxford, Langford was elected to a junior research fellowship in modern history at Lincoln College in 1969, becoming a tutorial fellow in 1970. He was a lecturer at the University of Oxford from 1971 to 1994, being elected a reader in modern history in 1994 and becoming a professor in 1996.

Langford was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society from 1979, a fellow of the British Academy from 1993 and was made an honorary fellow of Hertford College in 2000.

In 2002, the University of Sheffield awarded him an honorary doctor of letters. His notable publications include A Polite and Commercial People.

England 1727-1783, the first volume to be published in the New Oxford History of England. Langford married Margaret Edwards in 1970 and they had one son: Hugh.

He was a freeman of Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.

Achievements

• Paul Langford has been listed as a noteworthy historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Englishness Identified ' Manners and Character 1650-1850 '

    (Between 1650 and 1850 perceptions of the English were tra...)

  • A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 (New Oxford History of England)

    (The first volume of Sir George Clark's Oxford History of ...)

  • Public Life and the Propertied Englishman 1689-1798

    (This book offers a major reassessment of the place of the...)

  • By Paul Langford - A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783: 1st (first) Edition

    (The most authoritative and comprehensive general history ...)

  • Public Life and the Propertied Englishman, 1689-17
  • A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 (New Oxford History of England) by Langford, Paul (1989) Hardcover
  • Englishness Identified ' Manners and Character 1650-1850 ' by Langford, Paul (2002) Paperback
  • A polite and commercial people: England 1727 - 1783

Membership

Having served as a member of the Humanities Research Board from 1995, in 1998 he was appointed chairman and chief executive of the newly established Arts and Humanities Research Board, "dashing around the country, successfully selling the idea that research in the arts and humanities should be as fully and imaginatively funded as research in the social or natural sciences." He held this post until returning to Oxford to take up the rectorship of Lincoln College in 2000.

Connections

Married Margaret Veronica Edwards. 1 child Hugh.

Father:

Frederick Wade Langford

Mother:

Olive Myrtle Walters

Spouse:

Margaret Veronica Edwards

child:

Hugh Langford