M. Claire Cross is a British historian and professor emeritus in history at the

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. She was president of the

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from 1989 to 1990.

Education

Cross studied at the

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before becoming county archivist for Cambridgeshire. Cross also studied at the Huntingdon Library in

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, then held a research fellowship at the

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before becoming lecturer at the University of York (1965-2000).

Career

In 1958, Cross was appointed the County Archivist for

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. Cross was a visiting fellow at

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, Cambridge from 1990 to 1991. She was president of the

from 1989 to 1990 and the Society presented her with a festschrift, ''Life and Thought in the Northern Church, c.1100-1700'' in 1999 and made her an honorary fellow in 2000. Cross was chair and later vice-president of the

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Awards and recognition

Cross was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries,

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, and was awarded an honorary

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by the

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Publications

* ''Church and people, 1450-1660 : the triumph of the laity in the English church'' (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1976; second edition 1999) * ''The royal supremacy in the Elizabethan Church'' (London, Allen & Unwin; New York, Barnes & Noble, 1969) * (and D. M. Loades,

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), ''Law and government under the Tudors: essays presented to Sir Geoffrey Elton, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, on the occasion of his retirement'' (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988) * ''The puritan Earl: the life of Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, 1536-1595'' (London, Melbourne Macmillan; New York, St. Martin's P., 1966) * ''Urban magistrates and ministers: religion in Hull and Leeds from the Reformation to the Civil War'' (Borthwick Papers No. 67, York: University of York, 1985). * ''The Free Grammar School of Leicester'' (Leicester University Press, 1953) * ''The Letters of Sir Francis Hastings, 1574-1609'', Somerset Record Society (1969) * ''York Clergy Wills 1520-1600: 1 The Minster Clergy'', Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province, 10 (York, 1984). * ''York Clergy Wills 1520-1600: 2. The City Clergy'', Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 15 (York, 1989).

References

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