Wilfrid Prest

Wilfrid Prest (born 1940) is a historian, specialising in legal history, who is currently professor emeritus at the University of Adelaide. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,[1] the Australian Academy of the Humanities[2] and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia [1], as well as being an Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, University of Melbourne.

He has published three books, as well as many journal articles, and has also written 26 entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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Life

Wilfrid Prest read history at the University of Melbourne and then studied for his PhD at the University of Oxford. He became a lecturer at the University of Adelaide in 1966. He subsequently spent two years (1969–71) as assistant professor at The Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, before returning to the University of Adelaide, where he remained a member of the history department until July 2002. Between 1978 and 1985, he was also chairman of the Board of the Art Gallery of South Australia.

In 2002 he resigned his personal chair in History in order to take up an Australian Research Council Australian Professorial Fellowship; he moved to the Law School in 2003, and subsequently held his fellowship as a joint appointment between Law and History, while preparing a biography of William Blackstone, now forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Published works

Books

As editor

Articles in Edited Volumes

Entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Journal Articles

References

  1. ^ Royal Historical Society
  2. ^ Australian Academy of the Humanities