Wallace T. MacCaffrey
American historian and academic (1920-2013) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wallace Trevethic MacCaffrey (April 20, 1920 – December 13, 2013) was Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard University.[1] He was a graduate of Reed College and Harvard University.[2] He also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and Haverford College. Among his awards is a Guggenheim fellowship.[3] He was a leading scholar of Elizabethan England, best known for his trilogy of books, The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime (1968), Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572-1588 (1981) and Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603 (1992).
Wallace T. MacCaffrey | |
|---|---|
| Born | Wallace Trevethic MacCaffrey April 20, 1920 |
| Died | December 13, 2013 (aged 93) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Spouse |
Isobel Gamble
(m. 1956; died 1978) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Eastern Oregon College of Education |
| Alma mater | Reed College Harvard University Churchill College, Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Reed College University of California, Los Angeles Haverford College Harvard University Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
He died, aged 93, on 13 December 2013 at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, following a short illness and is buried at St Andrew's church, Girton.
Chairmanships at Harvard
MacCaffrey served as the Harvard History chair twice, and presided over a period of turmoil in the department.[4]
Reed donation
He gave Reed College a $1 million donation in 2006.
Bibliography
- Exeter, 1540-1640: The Growth of an English County Town (Harvard University Press, 1958)
- The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime: Elizabethan Politics, 1558-1572 (Princeton University Press, 1968)
- William Camden, History of the Most Renowned and Victorious Princess Elizabeth, Late Queen of England (editor; University of Chicago Press, 1970)
- Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572-1588 (Princeton University Press, 1981)
- Elizabeth I (Edward Arnold, 1993)
- Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603 (Princeton University Press, 1994)
References
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