Joseph Robson Tanner (28 July 1860 – 15 January 1931) was an English historian, an expert on Samuel Pepys, author of numerous publications and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

Life

Tanner was born in

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, the eldest son of Joseph Tanner. He was educated at

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, London, and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took a First in the Historical Tripos in 1882. He was President of the

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in Easter Term, 1883. He was a lecturer in History at St John's, from 1883 to 1921, and lecturer on Indian History to

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students, from 1885 to 1893. In 1883 Tanner became a Fellow of St John's and was an Assistant Tutor from 1895 to 1900, a Tutor from 1900 to 1912, and Tutorial Bursar, 1900–21. He served as a deputy to the Regius Professor of Modern History, 1926–27.''Who Was Who'', III, 1929–40, London : A. & C. Black, 2nd ed., 1967, 1324–25. In 1888 Tanner married Charlotte Maria, second daughter of George J. Larkman of Belton. After living in Cambridge for forty-two years he moved to Woodside,

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, Suffolk. He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.

Select publications

*''Hollond's Discourses of the Navy'', 1896 *''Pepys' Memoirs of the Royal Navy'', ed., 1906 *''An Historical Register of the University of Cambridge'', 1917 *''Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy'' ees Knowles Lectures, 1919 1920 *''Tudor Constitutional Documents, 1485–1603'', 1922 *''Mr Pepys, An Introduction to the Diary'', 1925 *''Pepy's Naval Minutes'', 1926 *''Private Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1679–1703'', 1926 *''English Constitutional Conflicts, 1603–1689'', 1928 *''Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1662–1679'', 1929 *''Constitutional Documents of the Reign of James I'', 1930 Shimer College student reading JR Tanner 1973

Shimer College student reading JR Tanner 1973

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tanner, Joseph Robson 1860 births 1931 deaths Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge People educated at Mill Hill School Presidents of the Cambridge Union 19th-century English historians English male non-fiction writers 20th-century English historians