William Abel Pantin

William Abel Pantin (1 May 1902 – 10 November 1973) was a historian of medieval England who spent most of his academic life at the University of Oxford.

Life Pantin was born in Blackheath, south London, on 1 May 1902. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class degree in Modern History in 1923. He undertook research at the University of Oxford after winning a Bryce Research Studentship.

Pantin was active in the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society (OAHS), serving on the Editorial Committee of its journal Oxoniensia and on the OAHS's Sub-Committee for Old Houses. He was President of the OAHS 1959–64. In 1954–55 F. W. Woolworth had the mediaeval Clarendon Hotel in Cornmarket Street demolished to make way for a new retail store. In 1959 Oxford City Council had Lower Fisher Row beside Castle Mill Stream demolished as slum clearance. In each case Pantin recorded the buildings as fully as possible before and during their demolition, and published his results in Oxoniensia.

Pantin retired from his college and university posts in 1969, and Oriel College made him an Honorary Fellow in 1971. It was founded in January 1971 and dissolved in August 2013.

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