Anthony John Fletcher (born 24 April 1941) is an English historian of the seventeenth century.
His parents were Dr. (Clarence) John Molyneux Fletcher (younger brother of Eric Fletcher, Baron Fletcher)[1][2] and Isabel Chenevix Trench. His maternal grandfather Reginald Chenevix Trench, who died in the Great War, had a sister Cesca, a Sinn Féin supporter who was at the General Post Office, Dublin during the Easter Rising of 1916. Isabel Fletcher was born in November 1915, shortly before her father's death.[3] Fletcher produced a series of recordings about his Irish forebears for the Irish Life and Lore website.
Dr. John Fletcher, after government service as a research metallurgist at Harwell, became an antiquarian who pioneered the use of dendrochronology in the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art at the University of Oxford, dating medieval buildings, structures, and paintings on panel.[4]
Anthony Fletcher was educated at Wellington College from 1954 to 1959, where he was an avid historian, journalist and stamp collector. In spite of his talent, he failed History at O-Level, which he considered "unpassable".[citation needed] On leaving school, he read history from 1959 at Merton College, Oxford,[5][6] where he was a contemporary of R. I. Moore. At Oxford, he was particularly influenced by WG Hoskins.[4]
Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500–1800 (1999).
Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600–1914 (2010).
Notes
↑ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 126
↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Privy Council, and Order of Preference, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1963, p. 113
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