Patrick Wormald, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British historian
Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1947
Place of Birth: Neston, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 29-Sep-2004
Profession: historian
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Patrick Wormald
- Charles Patrick Wormald (9 July 1947 – 29 September 2004) was a British historian born in Neston, Cheshire, son of historian Brian Wormald. He attended Eton College as a King's Scholar.
- From 1966 to 1969 he read modern history at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was tutored by Maurice Keen and farmed out for tutorials with Michael Wallace-Hadrill (at that time a Senior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford) and Peter Brown (at that time a research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford).
- Wormald's potential was subsequently recognised by both Merton and All Souls when those colleges awarded him, respectively, the Harmsworth Senior Scholarship and a seven-year Prize Fellowship. Wormald taught early medieval history at the University of Glasgow from 1974 to 1988, where his lectures drew huge enthusiasm from students.
- There he also met and married fellow-historian Jenny Brown.
- They had two sons, but their marriage was dissolved in 2001.
- While at Glasgow, he became a participant in the Bucknell Group of early medievalists, hosted by Wendy Davies – the group taking its name from a village on the Welsh-English border where it often met.
- He delivered the Jarrow Lecture in 1984. Following a British Academy Research Readership (1987–89), Wormald returned to Oxford in 1989 as a college lecturer at Christ Church, where he was then appointed a fellow and university lecturer from 1990, tutoring students in medieval history.
- He delivered the Deerhurst Lecture in 1991 and the British Academy's Raleigh Lecture in History in 1995.
- In 1996 he gave the inaugural Richard Rawlinson Center Congress Lecture at the 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo.
- His greatest work, which took many years to produce, was The Making of English Law, the first volume of which was published in 1999.
- Volume II was unfinished at the time of his death, although his extensive preparatory papers for the book have now been published online.
- Following his early retirement from Christ Church in 2001, he was re-engaged as a lecturer by the History Faculty at Oxford and entered Wolfson College.
- He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003, and that year also delivered the Brixworth Lecture. In 2009, a collection of essays written by leading scholars in Wormald's honour was published under the title Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, edited by Stephen Baxter et al.
- The book is introduced by articles on Wormald's person and his academic output.
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