id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6479 Geoffrey Elton - Wikipedia .html text/html 2866 340 64 Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton FBA (born Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg; 17 August 1921 – 4 December 1994) was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the Tudor period. He spent his time in the Army in the Intelligence Corps and the East Surrey Regiment, serving with the Eighth Army in Italy from 1944 to 1946 and reaching the rank of sergeant.[1]:79 During this period, Ehrenberg anglicised his name to Geoffrey Rudolph Elton.[1]:79 After his discharge from the army, Elton studied early modern history at University College London, graduating with a PhD in 1949.[1]:79 "Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton, 73, Tudor Historian at Cambridge". Cross, Claire, Loades, David & Scarisbrick, J.J (editors) Law and Government under the Tudors: Essays Presented to Sir Geoffrey Elton, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge on the Occasion of his Retirement Cambridge University Press, 1988. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6479.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6479.txt