Roderick Beaton

Sir Roderick Macleod Beaton, FBA, FKC (born 29 September 1951) is a retired academic. He was Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London from 1988 to 2018.

Education Born in 1951, Beaton was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with an English literature degree in 1973.

Career Beaton spent three years as the Ouranis Foundation Fellow in Modern Greek at the University of Birmingham (1977–80) and was also head of the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies from 1988 to 1994 and again from 1995 to 1998, He was also elected a Fellow of King's College London in 2018.

He was knighted in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours "for services to history and to UK/Greece relations".