Anthony Steel (historian)

Anthony Bedford Steel OBE (24 February 1900 – 3 October 1973) was a British historian, specialising in medieval England. He was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and principal of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire from 1949 to 1966.^[1] Among his publications were a monograph on the reign of Richard II, as well as a biography of the 19th-century writer Robert Smith Surtees, titled Jorrick's England. He also translated Albert Sorel's L'Europe et la Revolution Francaise into English (as Europe and the French Revolution).^[2]

Steel was born in India to Ethel Mary Steel (née Robinson) and Major Edwin Beford Steel, a doctor in the British Army, who was stationed in India at the time. He had a younger sister, Rachel Mary, and a younger brother, Christopher Bedford.^[1][3][4] Major Steel was in active service with the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I and died of his wounds in 1914^[5].

• Jorrocks's England: On the Works of Robert Smith Surtees (London: Methuen & Co., 1932).
• Richard II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941).
• The Custom of the Room; or, Early Wine-Books of Christ's College, Cambridge (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons 1951).
• The Receipt of the Exchequer, 1377–1485 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954).