Education
University of Nottingham. University of Kent.
University of Nottingham. University of Kent.
He was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge between 2004 and 2014. Daunton is the son of Ronald James Daunton and Dorothy née Bellett. He was educated at Barry Grammar School before going to the University of Nottingham where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970.
He studied further at the University of Kent Doctor of Philosophy 1974 and received the degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Cambridge in 2005.