Toby Christopher Barnard (born 17 April 1945) is emeritus fellow in history at

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Life

Barnard completed his undergraduate studies at the Queen's College, Oxford. However, he knew much about Hertford College prior to his arrival as a fellow from his history teacher at school, Stephen Pratt. Pratt had been a pupil of the previous generation of historians at Hertford, C. A. J. Armstrong and

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. Barnard joined the college in 1976 and retired in 2012. With the arrival of Roy Foster as Carroll Professor of Irish History in 1991 and Tom Paulin as G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature in 1994, Hertford became "the focus for Irish studies at Oxford" with a "triumvirate of Irish specialists". Barnard was formerly lecturer in history at

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(1970-1976). He is a specialist in the political, social and cultural histories of Ireland and England, c. 1600–1800. His ''A New Anatomy of Ireland'' (2003) was notable for the depth of primary research that Barnard carried out to complete it. One reviewer commented that "This task of discovery and accumulation by itself is an heroic achievement." Barnard is a fellow of the

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and the

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. He was supervised for his DPhil by

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Works

* *''The English Republic, 1649-60''.

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, London, 1982. (

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) *''The abduction of a Limerick heiress: Social and political relations in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland''.

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, 1998. * Barnard, Toby, and Jane Fenlon (eds.). ''The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745''.

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, 2000. *''A new anatomy of Ireland: the Irish Protestants, 1649-1770''.

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, 2003. *''Irish Protestant Ascents and Descents, 1641-1770''.

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, 2004. *''Making the Grand Figure: Lives and possessions in Ireland, 1641-1700''. Yale University Press, 2004. *''The Kingdom of Ireland, 1641-1760''.

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, 2004. *''A guide to the sources for the history of material culture in Ireland: 1500-2000''. Four Courts Press, 2005. *''Improving Ireland? Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641-1786''. Four Courts Press, 2008. * Murdoch, Tessa (ed.), foreword by Toby Barnard (2022). ''Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century''. Cambridge: John Adamson, foreword, pp. 11–15 * ''Brought to Book: Print in Ireland, 1680-1741''. Four Courts Press, 2017.

Contributions to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

* – Baron Broghill 1628 to 1660 *

References

Living people 1945 births Historians of the University of Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Philip Leverhulme Prize winners Historians of the early modern period Historians of Ireland {{UK-historian-stub