Gerald Aylmer - Wikipedia Gerald Aylmer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For other people named Gerald Aylmer, see Gerald Aylmer (disambiguation). Gerald Aylmer Born Gerald Edward Aylmer 30 April 1926 Greete, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom Died 17 December 2000(2000-12-17) (aged 74) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom Occupation Historian Parent(s) Edward Arthur Aylmer, Phoebe Evans Gerald Edward Aylmer, FBA (30 April 1926, Greete, Shropshire – 17 December 2000, Oxford) was an English historian of 17th century England. Gerald Aylmer was the only child of Edward Arthur Aylmer, from an Anglo-Irish naval family, and Phoebe Evans. A great-uncle was Lord Desborough. Educated at Beaudesert Park School and Winchester College, he went up to Balliol College, Oxford for a term before volunteering for the Navy, where he was a shipmate of George Melly. Returning to Balliol, he was tutored by Christopher Hill. He graduated in 1950, spent a year at Princeton University as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow, and completed his thesis, 'Studies on the Institutions and Personnel of English Central Administration, 1625–42' (1954) as a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol. The thesis, in two volumes, was 1208 pages long: the Modern History Board subsequently introduced a word-limit.) In 1954, Alymer went to Manchester University as an assistant lecturer, and in the following year married Ursula Nixon. Appointed lecturer at Manchester in 1962, he was then invited, aged 36, to become the first Professor of History at University of York. In 1979, he returned to Oxford as Master of St Peter's College, presiding over an improvement in academic performance at the college, increased endowment and building extensions before retiring in 1991. He remained an active publisher for the remaining nine years of his life before dying in hospital following what appeared to be routine surgery. In 1993 Aylmer was honoured with a festschrift edited by his long-time colleagues John Morrill and Paul Slack and his former doctoral student Daniel Woolf. Aylmer was on the Editorial Board of the History of Parliament Trust from 1968 to 1998, and chaired the board from 1989 to 1997. A Commissioner for Historical Manuscripts from 1978, he chaired the Commission from 1989 to 1989. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1976, and President of the Royal Historical Society between 1984 and 1988. Aylmer's most substantial historical contribution was his trilogy on seventeenth-century administration before, during and after the Civil War. Alymer brought a prosopographical method to the study of 17th century bureaucracy, as well as an interest in the political sociology of bureaucracy in Max Weber, James Burnham and Milovan Djilas. The first volume – a careful statistical study of Charles I's officials – effectively rebutted Hugh Trevor-Roper's attribution of the rise of the gentry to the profits of royal office, and characterisation of the Civil War as a conflict between 'rising' and 'declining' gentry. The second volume showed that Interregnum reforms had real, if not absolute, effects; the third, published posthumously, treated the partial return to older practices under Charles II. In this final volume, Aylmer described himself as "an old Whig (and one with some residual Leveller leanings too)".[1] Works[edit] The King's Servants. The Civil Service of Charles I, 1961 The State's Servants. The Civil Service of the English Republic, 1649-1660, 1973. ISBN 978-0-7100-7637-3 The Struggle for the Constitution 1603-88, 1963. 4th ed, 1975. (ed.) The Interregnum: the Quest for Settlement, 1972 The Levellers in the English Revolution, 1975. ISBN 978-0-8014-0957-8 (ed. as microfilm edition) The Clarke Manuscripts at Worcester College, Oxford, 1979 (with John Morrill), The Civil War and Interregnum: Sources for Local Historians, 1979 Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640-1660, 1986 The Crown's Servants: Government and Civil Service under Charles II 1660-85, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-820826-6 Aylmer's publications up to 1990 are listed in his Festschrift.[2] References[edit] ^ The Crown's Servants, 5, quoted in Thomas, 15. ^ William Sheils, 'Select Bibliography', in John Morrill, Paul Slack and Daniel Woolf, eds, Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England: Essays Presented to G. E. Aylmer, Oxford, 2003. Keith Thomas, 'Gerald Edward Aylmer, 1926-2000', Proceedings of the British Academy, 124 (2004), 3-21 Austin Woolrych, 'Gerald Aylmer: Historian who always blended authority with humanity' (obituary), The Guardian, 29 December 2000 Obituary, The Telegraph, External links[edit] Works by or about Gerald Aylmer in libraries (WorldCat catalog) Peter Aylmer, Gerald Aylmer: foremost authority on the 17th century English state Academic offices Preceded by J. C. Holt President of the Royal Historical Society 1985–1989 Succeeded by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson v t e Presidents of the Royal Historical Society 1871–1872 George Grote 1873–1878 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1878–1891 Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare 1891–1899 Sir M. E. Grant Duff 1899–1901 Sir Adolphus Ward 1901–1905 Sir George Prothero 1905–1909 William Hunt 1909–1913 William Cunningham 1913–1917 Sir Charles Firth 1917–1921 Sir Charles Oman 1921–1925 Sir John Fortescue 1925–1929 Frederick Tout 1929–1933 Sir Richard Lodge 1933–1937 Sir F. M. Powicke 1937–1945 Sir Frank Stenton 1946–1949 Robert William Seton-Watson 1949–1953 Theodore Plucknett 1953–1957 Hale Bellot 1957–1961 David Knowles 1961–1965 Sir Goronwy Edwards 1965–1969 Robin Humphreys 1969–1973 Sir R. W. Southern 1973–1977 Sir Geoffrey Elton 1977–1981 Sir John Habakkuk 1981–1985 Sir J. C. Holt 1985–1989 Gerald Aylmer 1989–1993 Michael Thompson 1993–1997 Sir Rees Davies 1997–2001 Sir P. J. Marshall 2001–2005 Dame Janet Nelson 2005–2008 Martin Daunton 2009–2012 Colin Jones 2012–2016 Peter Mandler 2016–present Margot Finn Authority control BNF: cb123455638 (data) GND: 119164582 ISNI: 0000 0001 1291 8896 LCCN: n50029789 NKC: xx0217191 NLK: KAC2018N7389 NTA: 068600119 PLWABN: 9810632764905606 SNAC: w64x77bd SUDOC: 070971757 VIAF: 84489 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50029789 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gerald_Aylmer&oldid=932622620" Categories: 1926 births 2000 deaths People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Princeton University alumni Fellows of the British Academy Presidents of the Royal Historical Society Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester Academics of the University of York Masters of St Peter's College, Oxford People educated at Beaudesert Park School 20th-century English historians Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from March 2017 Use British English from March 2017 Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLK identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages Add links This page was last edited on 27 December 2019, at 06:14 (UTC). 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