Toby Barnard

Toby Christopher Barnard (born 17 April 1945) is a British historian, emeritus fellow in history at Hertford College, Oxford.

Life Barnard completed his undergraduate studies at the Queen's College, Oxford. However, he knew much about Hertford College prior to his arrival as a fellow from his history teacher at school, Stephen Pratt. Pratt had been a pupil of the previous generation of historians at Hertford, C. A. J. Armstrong and Felix Markham.

Barnard joined the college in 1976 and retired in 2012. With the arrival of Roy Foster as Carroll Professor of Irish History in 1991 and Tom Paulin as G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature in 1994, Hertford became "the focus for Irish studies at Oxford" with a "triumvirate of Irish specialists". His A New Anatomy of Ireland (2003) was notable for the depth of primary research that Barnard carried out to complete it. One reviewer commented that "This task of discovery and accumulation by itself is an heroic achievement." Barnard is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society. He was supervised for his DPhil by Hugh Trevor-Roper.

Works

The English Republic, 1649-60. Longman, London, 1982. (Seminar Studies in History) The abduction of a Limerick heiress: Social and political relations in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland. Irish Academic Press, 1998. Barnard, Toby, and Jane Fenlon (eds.). The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745. Boydell Press, 2000. A new anatomy of Ireland: the Irish Protestants, 1649-1770. Yale University Press, 2003. Irish Protestant Ascents and Descents, 1641-1770. Four Courts Press, 2004. Making the Grand Figure: Lives and possessions in Ireland, 1641-1700. Yale University Press, 2004. The Kingdom of Ireland, 1641-1760. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. A guide to the sources for the history of material culture in Ireland: 1500-2000. Four Courts Press, 2005. Improving Ireland? Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641-1786. Four Courts Press, 2008. Murdoch, Tessa (ed.), foreword by Toby Barnard (2022). Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: John Adamson, foreword, pp. 11–15 Brought to Book: Print in Ireland, 1680-1741. Four Courts Press, 2017.

Contributions to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

– Baron Broghill 1628 to 1660