William B. Willcox


William Bradford Willcox was an American historian.
He was born in Ithaca, New York. He died in North Haven, Connecticut.
Education: He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1928 and studied at Cambridge University. At Yale University he studied architecture, and Tudor-Stuart English history. Wallace Notestein directed his dissertation, which was recognized as a pioneer study of government in Gloucestershire. The work received the distinguished John Addison Porter Prize for best work of scholarship in a given year.
Academic, research, and administrative appointments: Assistant in Research, Yale University, 1934-1935. Instructor in history, Williams College, 1936-1941. Professor of history, University of Michigan, 1941-1970. Chair of the Department. A Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946. Fulbright lecturer at Oxford University, 1957-1958. Professor of History, Yale University, January 1970-June 1976. Visiting Lecturer, Yale College, 1978 2nd term-1979. Yale residential college fellow, Calhoun College, 1970-1979. Editor, Papers of Benjamin Franklin, January 1970 – 1985.

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