Noël Denholm-Young
Noël Denholm-Young (5 January 1904 – 30 June 1975) was an English historian who specialized in the political history of late medieval England. He was a fellow and archivist at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later keeper of Western manuscripts at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. He finished his career as a senior lecturer at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He also published an edition of the chronicle Vita Edwardi Secundi.
Born in Liverpool, he was the son of John and Mira Denholm-Young. He studied at Keble College, Oxford, earning a second-class BA in history in 1926, and went on to take an MA and BLitt in 1930. He was a senior scholar at Christ Church from 1928 to 1930, and in 1931 became a Magdalen fellow by examination, with a special election running from 1933 to 1946. Ill health led him to move to Bangor to teach as a senior lecturer. Magdalen College keeps his archive of letters and correspondence.
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