Hale , Sir , John Rigby , 1923-1999 , Knight , historian and public servant

Hale , Sir , John Rigby , 1923-1999 , Knight , historian and public servant

Born, 1923; educated, Eastbourne College; war service in the merchant navy as a radio operator, 1941-1945; Jesus College, Oxford, 1945-1948; Commonwealth fellowship in the United States, 1948; fellowship and college tutorship in modern history at Jesus College, Oxford, [1949]-1964; founding chair of history at the University of Warwick, 1964-1969; visiting professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, 1969; chair of Italian at University College London, 1970-1988; Head of the Italian History Department, University College London, 1970-1985; Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery, 1974-1980; Fellow of the British Academy, 1977; retired, 1988; died, 1999.

Publications:

England and the Italian Renaissance (1954)

Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy (1961),

Renaissance Europe, 1480-1520 (1971)

Renaissance War Studies (1983)

The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State: Venice, c.1400-1617 (1984)

Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance (1990)

Civilisation of Europe in the Renaissance (1993).