Roy Martin Haines

Roy Martin Haines is a British historian.

Haines is the son of Evan George Martin Haines, who served in the Welsh Guards during World War I and died in 1929 from an illness attributable to his military service.[1] His mother was Sarah Hilda Haines née Hall, for more than a quarter of a century the highly respected district nurse and midwife in Catshill, near Bromsgrove, who received the Royal Maundy in 1980 at Worcester. His wife, whom he married in 1957, is Carol Pamela Mary née Dight, an Oxford M.A., daughter of the late F. H. Dight O.B.E., a meteorologist.

Between 1932 and 1938 Haines was a pupil at St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford. [2] He was then educated at Bromsgrove School, which he entered in 1938 as a foundation scholar.

Haines was educated at St. Chad's College in the University of Durham (Gisborne Scholar 1943), where he was admitted to the degrees of BA, MA, and MLitt (1954)[3] (supervised by H.S. Offler),[4][5] and received a Diploma in Education. While at Durham Haines came into contact with Professor Alexander Hamilton Thompson whose scholarship was to remain an abiding influence.

Haines returned to St Michael's as a master from 1947 until 1954. He was responsible for establishing a termly newsletter and later became Chairman of the Old Michaelian Association. Kendall Carey, a pupil at St Michael's from 1949 until 1956, described Haines as 'a superb teacher'. In addition to the standard curriculum Haines taught heraldry, architecture, and medieval battles, and demonstrated motte-and-bailey castles with sand and matchsticks.[6]

He later studied at Worcester College, Oxford, with the help of a grant from the Chance Educational Trust. While there he obtained a DPhil 1959).[7] Some of his publications were successfully submitted in 2010 for the degree of DLitt of the University of Oxford.

Haines was a history master at Westminster School,[8][9] where he was later promoted to housemaster.[10] He was also Assistant Editor of the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire .[11]

Haines moved to Canada in 1966,[12] and specifically to Dalhousie University in 1967.[13] He later became Professor of Medieval History at Dalhousie.[14]

In 1978-80 Haines was Canada Council Killam Senior Research Scholar.[15][16] He spent part of the time at the Vatican Archives. In 1987/8 he was Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and was appointed a life member of the college in 1990.[17]

Haines is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (elected 2 March 1967)[18] and of the Royal Historical Society. In 1987 he delivered the Bertie Wilkinson Memorial Lecture at the University of Toronto.[19]

After retiring from Dalhousie Haines returned to the United Kingdom, where he lived in Putney before moving to Curry Rivel in Somerset.[20]

Haines is the father-in-law of Alexander Jones, FRSC, Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, both at New York University.[21]

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  1. ^ Haines, Archbishop John Stratford, p. v.
  2. ^ Sally Maria Jones, St Michael's School, Otford: Recollections, Observations, and Celebrations: The Story of St Michael's School, Otford, since its Foundation in Hatcham, New Cross, in 1872 (Sevenoaks: Amherst, 2004), p. 182.
  3. ^ Haines, 'Bishop Bransford' (University of Durham MLitt dissertation, 1954).
  4. ^ Haines, 'Editor's Acknowledgements', A Calendar of the Register of Wolstan de Bransford.
  5. ^ Haines, Ecclesia Anglicana, p. ix.
  6. ^ Sally Maria Jones, St Michael's School, Otford: Recollections, Observations, and Celebrations: The Story of St Michael's School, Otford, since its Foundation in Hatcham, New Cross, in 1872 (Sevenoaks: Amherst, 2004), pp. 182, 152-3, 156, 134; cf. Haines, Ecclesia Anglicana, p. ix..
  7. ^ Haines, 'The Administration of the Diocese of Worcester in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century' (University of Oxford DPhil dissertation, 1959).
  8. ^ Haines, The Administration of the Diocese of Worcester, p. xvi.
  9. ^ Haines, A Calendar of the Register of Wolstan de Bransford (title page).
  10. ^ Haines, Ecclesia Anglicana, p. ix.
  11. ^ Haines, Ecclesia Anglicana, p. ix.
  12. ^ 'Call to Canada', Evening Standard (15 June 1966).
  13. ^ Haines, Ecclesia Anglicana, p. ix.
  14. ^ Haines, Calendar of the Register of Simon de Montacute, p. xiii.
  15. ^ Haines, Archbishop John Stratford, p. iii.
  16. ^ The Killam Trusts.
  17. ^ Haines, King Edward II, p. ix.
  18. ^ List of Fellows, Society of Antiquaries of London.
  19. ^ Haines, King Edward II, p. xi.
  20. ^ Haines, King Edward II, p. ix.
  21. ^ Haines, King Edward II, p. xi.