R.B. (Brian) Outhwaite (1935–2005) was a social, legal and

economic historian Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and in ...

. For the last 31 years of his life, he was a member of

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of ...

, where he was, latterly, Director of Studies.

Publications

* ''Clandestine Marriage in England, 1500–1850'' * ''Inflation in Tudor and Early Stuart England'' * ''Dearth, Public Policy and Social Disturbance in England 1550–1800'' * ''Scandal in the Church: Dr Edward Drax Free, 1764–1843'' * ''The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500–1860''

External links

Obituary, Economic History Society (UK), August 2002 newsletter

The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500–1860
1935 births 2005 deaths Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 20th-century English historians 21st-century English historians {{UK-historian-stub