Patrick Collinson

|occupation = Historian and academic |birth_date = 10 August 1929 |birth_place = Ipswich, Suffolk, England |death_date = |title = Regius Professor of Modern History |parents = Belle Patrick |education = Bethany School
Huntingdon Grammar School
King's School, Ely |alma_mater = Pembroke College, Cambridge
University College London |doctoral_advisor = J. E. Neale |workplaces = University of Khartoum
King's College London
University of Sydney
University of Kent
University of Sheffield
Trinity College, Cambridge |discipline = History |sub_discipline = |notable_works = ''The Elizabethan Puritan Movement'' (1967) |notable_students = Desmond Tutu |doctoral_students = |spouse = |children = 4 |thesis_title = The Puritan classical movement in the reign of Elizabeth I |thesis_year = 1957 }} Patrick "Pat" Collinson (10 August 1929 – 28 September 2011) was an English historian, known as a writer on the Elizabethan era, particularly Elizabethan Puritanism. He was emeritus Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, having occupied the chair from 1988 to 1996. He once described himself as "an early modernist with a prime interest in the history of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." Provided by Wikipedia