David Steele

David Steele (1934 – 17 June 2019) was a British historian at the University of Leeds who focused on nineteenth-century British political history.

Academic career Steele taught briefly at University College Dublin before becoming a Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Leeds. He remained at Leeds for 34 years until his retirement in 1999. G. R. Searle said Steele's biography "brings out [Salisbury's] progressive impulses".

Selected publications Irish Land and British Politics: Tenant-Right and Nationality, 1865–1870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974). Palmerston and Liberalism, 1855–1865 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography (London: University College London Press, 1999).