Education
Returning to The Queen"s College in 1945, he graduated with a first class degree in History in 1947, and subsequently took his Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis titled The "northern" barons under John in 1952, at Merton College, Oxford.
historian medievalist university professor
Returning to The Queen"s College in 1945, he graduated with a first class degree in History in 1947, and subsequently took his Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis titled The "northern" barons under John in 1952, at Merton College, Oxford.
He was the third Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, serving between 1981 and 1988. Educated at Bradford Grammar School, Holt"s studies at The Queen"s College, Oxford were interrupted by war service with the British Army, including 14 months in north-west Europe in 1944-1945. He held the positions of Lecturer (1949-1962) and then Professor of Medieval History (1962-1965) at the University of Nottingham, Professor of History at the University of Reading (1965-1978) and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge from 1978 until his retirement in 1988.
From 1981 until 1988 he served as the Master of Fitzwilliam College.
He died on 9 April 2014, aged 91. Holt married Alice Suley in 1951.
They had one son. Holt was "passionate about cricket".