Christopher Smout

Thomas Christopher Smout (born 19 December 1933) is an English academic, historian, author and Historiographer Royal in Scotland.

Early life Christopher was born in Birmingham in 1933.

Career Smout taught at the University of Edinburgh, from 1959 until 1980.

Smout was a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde from 1991; and he has lectured in Japan, in China, in the United States, in Canada and in Australia.

Smout has written extensively on demographic history and many aspects of economic history. Since the mid-1990s, he has developed the new discipline of environmental history in Scotland, giving the Ford Lectures in Oxford in 1999, published under the title of Nature Contested, Environmental History in Scotland and Northern England since 1600. A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500–1920, written with Alan R. MacDonald & Fiona Watson is the first modern history of Scottish woodlands. It examines the relationship between people and woodlands. His most recent publications in this field have been in woodland history

Smout used his position to argue in favour of reviving the title "Princess Lyon". He suggested that the Princess Royal should be known by this title when she is in Scotland, much in the same way her nephew, the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall is traditionally identified as the Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick and Lord of the Isles when he is in Scotland.

Smout has also interested himself in small local issues. He is married to a Danish national, Anne-Marie, father to a daughter Penny and a son Andrew. Institute of Scottish Historical Research, 2007.

Royal appointments Historiographer Royal of Scotland, 1993.

Selected works

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Smout TC, MacDonald Alan R & Watson Fiona. A History of the Native Woodlands of Scotland, 1500 - 1920. Edinburgh 2005

Honours Order of the British Empire, Commander, 1994. University of St Andrews, honorary doctorate, 1999. University of Edinburgh, honorary doctorate, 1996. University of Glasgow, honorary doctorate, 2001. University of Stirling, honorary doctorate, 2002. British Academy, fellow. Royal Society of Edinburgh, fellow. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, fellow