Geoffrey Scammell
Geoffrey Vaughan Scammell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 July 1925 Wallasey, Merseyside |
| Died | Cambridge, 2006 |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Wallasey Grammar School, Merseyside and Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Authority on Tudor and Stuart maritime life |
Geoffrey Vaughan Scammell (11 July 1925 - 2006) was a British historian and fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was an authority on Tudor and Stuart maritime history.
Early life
[edit]Geoffrey Scammell was born on 11 July 1925[1] in Wallasey, Merseyside, England.[2] Attended Wallasey Grammar School. He graduated from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, BA in 1948 (MA 1953). After service at sea and a position at Durham, he became a Fellow of Pembroke College 12 years later, where he remained as a lecturer and scholar until his retirement in 1992.
Career
[edit]Scammell served in the Royal Navy as a lieutenant from 1943 to 1946. His academic career began after his war service, first as a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and then at the University of Durham as Lecturer in Diplomatic. In 1965 he became a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was director of studies in history at Cambridge from 1965 to 1992 and emeritus fellow at Pembroke College from 1992.[3]
He wrote primarily about the maritime history of the Tudor and Stuart period[4] and was chairman of the British committee of the International Maritime History Committee from 1978 to 1989.
Death
[edit]Scammell died in Cambridge in 2006.[1]
Selected publications
[edit]- Hugh Du Puiset: A Biography of the Twelfth-Century Bishop of Durham. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1956.
- The World Encompassed: The First European Maritime Empires c.800-1650. First published in 1981 by Methuen and Co Ltd and University of California Press, Berkeley, second edition published in 2018 by Routledge, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon and by Routledge, 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017.[5]
- The English Chartered Trading Companies and the Sea. National Maritime Museum, London, 1983.
- The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion, c.1400-1715. Unwin Hyman, London, 1989.
- Ships, Oceans and Empire: Studies in European Maritime and Colonial History, 1400-1750. Variorum, Aldershot, 1995. ISBN 0860784754
- Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450-1750: Studies in British and European Maritime and Imperial History. Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot, 2003.[6] ISBN 0860788970
References
[edit]- ^ a b Geoffrey Vaughan Scammell England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007. Family Search. Retrieved 26 September 2018. (subscription required)
- ^ Geoffrey V Scammell England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. Family Search. Retrieved 26 September 2018. (subscription required)
- ^ Pembroke College. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ^ "The Work of G.V. Scammell" by Cheryl A. Fury in The Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1649, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ^ Reid, John G. (1983). "The world encompassed: The first European maritime empires, c. 800–1650". Journal of Historical Geography. 9 (4): 442–443. doi:10.1016/0305-7488(83)90298-0.
- ^ History in Focus: Empire. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
