Quote of the day
I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be
A pleasant road.
I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from me
Aught of its load;
Geoffrey Elton

Born: August 17, 1921
Died: December 3, 1994 (aged 73)
Bio: Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the Tudor period. He taught at Clare College, Cambridge and was the Regius Professor of Modern History there from 1983 to 1988.
Known for:
- The Practice of History (1967)
- The Tudor revolution in government (1953)
- England Under the Tudors (1955)
- Reformation Europe, 1517-1559 (1963)
- Return to essentials (1991)