Vincent T. Harlow was a prominent historian of the British Empire who held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford between 1950 and 1963. He is best known for his book, The Founding of the Second British Empire, 1763-1793, the first volume of which was published in 1952. His second volume, subtitled "New Continents and Changing Values", was published posthumously in 1964. The incomplete manuscript was edited by F. C. Madden.