Stanley Bindoff

Stanley Thomas Bindoff (8 April 1908 – 23 December 1980) was an English historian who specialised in the Tudor and Elizabethan periods. He was the first professor of history at Queen Mary College, University of London. He was the editor of The History of Parliament for the parliaments of 1509–1558, published in 1982.

Background Bindoff was born in Hove on 8 April 1908. He was educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School and University College London.

Career Bindoff is best known for his book Tudor England, which R. H. Tawney stated "deserves to become a classic" upon its publication in 1950. Its enduring appeal compared to the other works in the Pelican History of England series derived, for William Lamont, from Bindoff's understanding of Tudor politics as "essentially trivial". He supervised many graduate students, Eric Ives and Marcus Merriman among them.

Personal life and death In 1938, Bindoff married Marjorie Blatcher, with whom he had two children; she died in 1979. A lecture series in Bindoff's name at Queen Mary was inaugurated by his colleague Eric Hobsbawm in 1990.

Selected publications Geyl, Pieter. The Netherlands Divided, 1609–1648 ... (Based on Geschiedenis van de Nederlandsche Stam.) Williams & Norgate, London, 1936. (Translator) The Scheldt Question to 1839, etc. G. Allen & Unwin, London, 1945. Ket's Rebellion 1549. George Philip & Son, London, 1949. Tudor England. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1950. (Pelican History of England, vol. 5) The fame of Sir Thomas Gresham. Jonathan Cape, London, 1973. (Neale lecture in English history No. 4) The House of Commons, 1509–1558. Secker & Warburg, London, 1982. (Editor)