Peter Anthony Linehan, FBA (11 July 1943 – 9 July 2020) was a British historian of medieval Spain.[1][2][3]
He was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, where he was Dean of Discipline,[4] and a fellow of the British Academy.[5][3]
Linehan was born in Mortlake, London, the son of a brokerage clerk and a teacher, and attended St Benedict's School, Ealing.[6] He first visited Spain in 1959.[7] He joined St John's College in 1961 as an undergraduate to study History. He remained at St John's where he became a research fellow in 1966.[6][8] He completed his PhD on "Reform and reaction: the Spanish kingdoms and the Papacy in the thirteenth century", under the supervision of Walter Ullmann.[6] This won the Thirlwall Prize and Seeley medal for 1970-1, and formed the basis for his first book, "The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century" (1971).[4][9]
At St John's, Linehan served as a Tutor, Tutor for Graduate Affairs, Director of Studies in History three times, and Dean of Discipline for 11 years.[10][8]
Linehan was influenced by Walter Ullmann, Christopher Cheney, Raymond Carr, Geoffrey Barraclough, and his tutor Ronald Robinson.[11][12]
He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1971[6][13] and a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia in 1996.[6][3] He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2002.[5] In 2018, he was awarded an honorary degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid.[7][14]
He died in 2020 aged 76 from heart disease.[11] He was survived by his wife and their three children.[4]
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