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Penry Williams (historian) was a British historian and academic. He was born on 25 February 1925 in London, England. He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history. He was a Fellow of Trinity College from 1951 to 1988, and was appointed Professor of Medieval History in 1971. He was a leading authority on the history of the medieval English monarchy, and wrote several books on the subject, including The English Kings and Queens (1966), The Later Middle Ages (1972), and The Tudors (1973). He was also a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Royal Historical Society. Penry Williams died on 28 April 2013, aged 88. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and two daughters.

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1982

He edited The English Historical Review from 1982 until 1990. He wrote The Later Tudors: England, 1547–1603 (1995) for the New Oxford History of England series.

1979

In his 1979 work, The Tudor Regime, Williams repudiated Geoffrey Elton's focus on the central administrative institutions of government in The Tudor Revolution in Government, and instead asserted the importance of local patronage and favouritism. Williams argued that "the strength of Tudor government lay in a skilful combination of the formal and the informal, the official and the personal".

1958

He was born in Calcutta to a father from Brecknockshire and he was educated at Marlborough College. During the Second World War Williams served in India and Java as a member of the Royal Artillery. He then read history at New College, Oxford, where J. E. Neale suggested he study Wales under the government of Elizabeth I. His doctoral thesis, The Council in the Marches of Wales under Elizabeth I, was published in 1958.

1952

Williams married in 1952. His politics were moderately left-wing; he first supported Labour, then the SDP and finally the Liberal Democrats. He also campaigned on behalf of asylum seekers, including those held at Campsfield House immigration detention centre, which he frequently visited.

1951

He taught history at the Victoria University of Manchester from 1951 until 1964 and at New College from 1964 until 1992.

1925

Penry Herbert Williams (25 February 1925 – 30 April 2013) was a Welsh historian of Elizabethan Britain.