Stubbs

Stubbs, WILLIAM (b. 1825), the great constitutional historian, was born at Knaresborough and educated at Ripon grammar school and Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected to a fellowship at Trinity, and, after long holding a college living, was appointed professor of modern history at Oxford (1866-84), and occupied the see of Chester from 1884 to 1888, when he was translated to Oxford. His Constitutional History of England, an epoch-making work, was published in 3 vols. between 1874 and 1878. His other works include a collection of mediaeval chronicles for the Rolls Series with valuable prefaces, Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History (1870), and Lectures on the Study of Mediaeval and Modern History (1886).