Plumb, Sir John Harold

Plumb, Sir John Harold
▪ 2002

      British historian and academic (b. Aug. 20, 1911, Leicester, Eng.—d. Oct. 21, 2001, Cambridge, Eng.), was a prolific author and a noted expert on the social and political history of 18th-century England, but he was almost as well known for his sumptuous epicurean lifestyle, acerbic tongue, and reputation as a cantankerous eccentric. Plumb came from a working-class background and was educated at the University of Leicester before studying under historian G.M. Trevelyan at the University of Cambridge. In 1946 Plumb became a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he held numerous positions during his long academic career, including chairman of the history faculty (1966–68) and master of Christ's (1978–82). His learned and elegantly written books included England in the Eighteenth Century (1950), two biographical volumes on Sir Robert Walpole (1956 and 1960), and the text for the Royal Heritage television series (1977). Plumb was knighted in 1982.

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