R.B. (Brian) Outhwaite (1935–2005) was a social, legal and
economic historian
Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and inst ...
. For the last 31 years of his life, he was a member of
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...
, where he was, latterly, Director of Studies.
Publications
* ''Clandestine Marriage in England, 1500–1850''
* ''Inflation in Tudor and Early Stuart England''
* ''Dearth, Public Policy and Social Disturbance in England 1550–1800''
* ''Scandal in the Church: Dr Edward Drax Free, 1764–1843''
* ''The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500–1860''
External links
Obituary, Economic History Society (UK), August 2002 newsletterThe Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500–1860
1935 births
2005 deaths
Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
20th-century English historians
21st-century English historians
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