David Cannadine

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Full Name	David Cannadine
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Sep 7, 1950(1950-09-07)
Age	74
Country	England
Birth City	Birmingham
Horoscope	Virgo

David Cannadine Biography

David Cannadine is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on September 7, 1950 in Birmingham, England. David Cannadine was born in Birmingham on September 7, 1950. He attended King Edward VI Five Ways School. He attended Clare College, Cambridge, where he completed two firsts in his history. He also attended St John’s College, Oxford where he earned his DPhil in the field of history, and also in Princeton University where he was an Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow. After finishing his graduate studies and returning to Cambridge and was an academic scholar in St John’s College, and was named a Fellow of Christ’s College and appointed to an honorary lectureship at the University of Cambridge in the field of history.

The many books of Cannadine comprise The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990); G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1992); Class in Britain (1998); Ornamentalism: How the British perceived their Empire (2001); Mellon: A Memoir of an American life (2006); The Thirty Year Rule (jointly with 2009.); The Right Kind of History (jointly 2011,) as well as The Undivided Past Humanity beyond our differences (2013). The most recent works include George V the Unexpected King (2014) and The Heroic The Chancellor of the University: Winston Churchill and the University of Bristol (2015).

Cannadine has served as a Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society (1998–2002) and as a member of the Advisory Council, Public Record Office, subsequently National Archives (1999–2004); as a Trustee and Vice-Chairman of the Kennedy Memorial Trust (1999–2010); as a Trustee, Vice-Chair and Chair of the National Portrait Gallery (2000–12); as a Commissioner of English Heritage (2001–09) and as Chairman of its Blue Plaques Panel (2006–13); as a member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee (2004–14); and as Chair of Churchill 2015 (2013–15).

Cannadine holds honorary degrees from the London South Bank University (2001), the University of East Anglia (2001), the University of Birmingham (2002), the University of Worcester (2011), and the University of Leicester (2019). He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research (2005), the Historical Association (2011), Christ’s College, Cambridge (2005), and Clare College, Cambridge (2012), and an Honorary Churchill Fellow of Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri (2012).

Cannadine was appointed the chair of professorial the history department in Columbia University in 1988, returning to Britain 10 years later to serve as the director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and, in the following years appointed as the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother’s Professor in British History. In 2008, he joined the History Department of Princeton University and in 2014 , he was appointed editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and was also appointed to an academic position in Oxford University. University of Oxford.

David Cannadine Net Worth

David Cannadine is one of the richest Historian from England. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Cannadine 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sir David Cannadine FBA , FRSL FSA FHistS FRSA (born 1950) is a British historian and author, who specializes in modern historical studies and the historical background of philanthropy and business. He is currently an Dodge Professor of Historical Studies in Princeton University, a Visiting Professor of History at Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He also serves as President of the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences. He is also The Chairman of the Trustee Board for the National Portrait Gallery in London as well as Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board of Past & Present.

Cannadine was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1981) as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1998) as well as an Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1999) and an Fellow of the British Academy (1999), and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (2005). He was presented with the Lionel Trilling Prize (1991) and the Dean’s Distinguished Prize in the humanities (1996) at Columbia University, the Dickinson Medal from the Newcomen Society (2003), the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, and the Norton Medlicott Award of the Historical Association.

Cannadine has delivered many public lectures including the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy (1997), the Carnochan Lecture at Stanford University (2001), the Linbury Lecture at the National Gallery (2002), the T. S. Eliot Lecture at Washington University, St Louis (2003), the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at the University of Cambridge (2007), the Inaugural Lecture for the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin (2010), the Crosby Kemper Lecture at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, the Jon Sigurosson Lecture at the University of Iceland (2012), the Haaga Lecture at the Huntington Library (2012), the Creighton Lecture at the University of Toronto (2013), the Robb Lectures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (2015), and the Wolfson Anniversary Lecture at the University of Glasgow (2015).

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