Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1909, Apr. 24 | Born, Dublin, Ireland |
1931 | B.A., Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
1934 | Ph.D., University of London, London, England |
1934-1939 | Lecturer, University College, Southampton, England |
1937 | Married Alison Moffat Robertson |
1939-1944 | Senior lecturer, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Secretary, Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies |
1940 | Published The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 2 vols. London: Hakluyt Society |
1941 | Elected to Royal Irish Academy |
1941-1943 | Edited Labour Progress |
1943 | Assistant editor, Czechoslovakian Section, European Division, British Broadcasting Corp. |
1944-1957 | Professor, University College, Swansea, Wales |
1947 | Published Raleigh and the British Empire. London: English Universities Press |
1948 | Received Leverhulme Research Fellowship to pursue research in America on sixteenth-century English exploration |
1955 | Published The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590: Documents to Illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent Granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584. 2 vols. London: Hakluyt Society |
1957-1976 | Andrew Geddes and John Rankin Professor of Modern History, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England |
1960-1982 | Vice president, Hakluyt Society |
1964 | Published with Paul H. Hulton The American Drawings of John White. 2 vols. London: British Museum and University of North Carolina Press |
1964-1968 | Vice president, Royal Historical Society |
1969-1970 | Harrison Visiting Professor, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. |
1969 | Named to Editorial Committee of the New History of Ireland series published under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy |
1971 | Published with W. P. Cumming and R. A. Skelton The Discovery of North America. London: Elek Published North American Discovery, Circa 1000-1612. New York: Harper & Row |
1972 | Published with Neil M. Cheshire The New Found Land of Stephen Parmenius. Toronto: University of Toronto Press |
1974 | Published England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620. London: Knopf Edited The Hakluyt Handbook. 2 vols. London: Hakluyt Society |
1975 | Delivered Prothero Lecture entitled “Renaissance Influences in English Colonisation,” Royal Historical Society, London, England |
1976-1978 | Senior Visiting Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Md. |
1977 | Published North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements: The Norse Voyages to 1612. New York: Harper & Row |
1979 | Published with Alison M. Quinn and Susan Hillier New American World: A Documentary History of North America from Earliest Times to 1612. 5 vols. New York: Arno Press |
1980-1982 | Senior Visiting Professor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Md. |
1982 | Elected president, Hakluyt Society |
1984 | Elected honorary fellow, British Academy |
1986-1987 | Lecture tour of the United States as Fulbright Fortieth Anniversary Distinguished Fellow |
2002, Mar. 19 | Died, Liverpool, England |