Keith Kissack

Keith Edward Kissack MBE
Keith Kissack with Prince Charles in Monmouth Museum, 1975.
Born	(1913-11-18)18 November 1913 Clun, Shropshire
Died	31 March 2010(2010-03-31) (aged 96)
Education	Durham School
Alma mater	St Mark and St John's College
Occupation	Schoolteacher Historian

Keith Edward Kissack MBE (18 November 1913 – 31 March 2010) was a British schoolteacher and historian. He is notable for his many publications on the history of Monmouth and Monmouthshire.

He was born in Clun, Shropshire, and attended Durham School where he was a member of the school cricket team in 1931 and 1932. He later attended St Mark and St John's College, Chelsea, where he trained as a teacher.^[1] After the Second World War, in which he was wounded, he taught in Monmouth, becoming headmaster of Priory Street School. He served on Monmouth Town Council, and was a magistrate who chaired the local bench. He was also Curator of the Monmouth Museum, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.^[2][3] He was made MBE in 1976.^[4]

His major publications, excluding journal articles, included:^[3][5]

• The Trivial Round: Life in Monmouth, 1830-1840 (1955)
• The Inns and Friendly Societies of Monmouth (with E.T.Davies, 1963, revised 1981)
• The Formative Years: the rise of Monmouth under its Breton lords, 1075-1257 (1969)
• Mediaeval Monmouth (1974)
• Monmouth: the Making of a County Town (1975)
• The River Wye (1978)
• The River Severn (1982)
• Victorian Monmouth (1984)
• Monmouth and its Buildings (1991, revised 2003)
• Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls (1992)
• Monmouth School and Monmouth, 1614-1995 (1995)
• The Lordship, Parish and Borough of Monmouth (1996)
• The Schools in the Priory (1999)
• Home Front Monmouth (2000)
• Monmouth during the First War (with Betty Williams, 2001)
• Monmouth Priory (with David Williams et al., 2001)

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