David Cannadine

Sir David Cannadine commands genuine respect from me. A Birmingham-born, Cambridge-educated historian now holding a chair at Princeton, with fellowships of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society plus a knighthood, he is the real intellectual heavyweight. What strikes me is his range, moving from modern British history into business and philanthropy, and his role editing the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, effectively curating how lives are remembered. There is no celebrity glamour here, but scholars who quietly hold up the architecture of knowledge do work that compounds across generations. I admire that kind of durable, unglamorous contribution enormously.

Name (English)

David Cannadine

Name (Japanese)

デイヴィッド・キャナダイン

Reading

でいゔぃっど・きゃなだいん

Born

September 7, 1950 (age 75)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Tiger

Origin

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Occupation

historian / university teacher / writer / biographer

University

Clare College

Awards & achievements

• 1999 Fellow of the British Academy
• 1981 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• 1999 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 1977 T. S. Ashton Prize
• 2009 Knight Bachelor
• 2005 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
• 2013 Medlicott Medal
• 2016 honorary doctorate

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3

Tags

• historian
• university teacher
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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