Roger Snowden Schofield, FBA, FRHistS, FSS (26 August 1937 – 8 April 2019) was a British social scientist, social historian, demographer and academic. He was director of the

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between 1974 and 1994, and a fellow of

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, from 1969 until his death. Schofield was born on 26 August 1937 and educated at

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and

, where he completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies. Having completed his

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in 1963,"Schofield, Dr Roger Snowden"
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'' (online ed.,

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, December 2018). Retrieved 11 September 2019. Schofield was appointed a research assistant to the

in 1966."Roger Schofield obituary"
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''. Retrieved 11 September 2019. He was appointed the Group's director in 1974; he stepped down in 1994, but remained involved with the Group as a

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until retiring in 1998. He had also been elected to a

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at Clare College in 1969. Schofield served as president of the

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from 1985 to 1987 and was elected a

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in 1970, a

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in 1987 and a

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(the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences) in 1988."Dr Roger Schofield"
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''. Retrieved 11 September 2019. The

awarded him a higher doctorate in 2005. Schofield died on 8 April 2019.

Publications

* (Co-authored with Tony Wrigley) ''The Population History of England 1541–1871: A Reconstruction'' ( Edward Arnold, 1981). * (Co-edited with John Walter) ''Famine, Disease, and the Social Order in Early Modern Society'', Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (

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, 1989). * (Co-authored with Tony Wrigley, R. S. Davies and Jim Oeppen) ''English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580–1837'', Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (

, 1997). * ''Taxation Under the Early Tudors 1485–1547'' (

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, 2004).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schofield, Roger 1937 births 2019 deaths British social scientists British demographers Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society