Roy Martin Haines
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Roy Martin Haines is a British
historian.
Haines is the son of Evan George Martin Haines, who served in the Welsh Guards
during World War I
and died in 1929 from an illness attributable to his military service. His mother was Sarah Hilda Haines née Hall, for more than a quarter of a century the highly respected district nurse and midwife in Catshill
, near Bromsgrove
, who received the Royal Maundy in 1980 at Worcester. His wife, whom he married in 1957, is Carol Pamela Mary née Dight, an Oxford M.A., daughter of the late F. H. Dight O.B.E., a meteorologist.
Between 1932 and 1938 Haines was a pupil at St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford
. He was then educated at Bromsgrove School
, which he entered in 1938 as a foundation scholar.
Haines was educated at St. Chad's College in the University of Durham (Gisborne Scholar 1943), where he was admitted to the degrees of BA
, MA
, and MLitt
(1954) (supervised by H.S. Offler), and received a Diploma in Education
. While at Durham Haines came into contact with Professor Alexander Hamilton Thompson whose scholarship was to remain an abiding influence.
Haines returned to St Michael's
as a master from 1947 until 1954. He was responsible for establishing a termly newsletter and later became Chairman of the Old Michaelian Association. Kendall Carey, a pupil at St Michael's from 1949 until 1956, described Haines as 'a superb teacher'. In addition to the standard curriculum Haines taught heraldry, architecture, and medieval battles, and demonstrated motte-and-bailey
castles with sand and matchsticks.
He later studied at Worcester College, Oxford
, with the help of a grant from the Chance Educational Trust. While there he obtained a DPhil
1959). Some of his publications were successfully submitted in 2010 for the degree of DLitt
of the University of Oxford
.
Haines was a history master at Westminster School
, where he was later promoted to housemaster
. He was also Assistant Editor of the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire
.
Haines moved to Canada
in 1966, and specifically to Dalhousie University
in 1967. He later became Professor of Medieval History at Dalhousie
.
In 1978-80 Haines was Canada Council
Killam
Senior Research Scholar. He spent part of the time at the Vatican Archives. In 1987/8 he was Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge
and was appointed a life member of the college in 1990.
Haines is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
(elected 2 March 1967) and of the Royal Historical Society
. In 1987 he delivered the Bertie Wilkinson Memorial Lecture at the University of Toronto
.
After retiring from Dalhousie
Haines returned to the United Kingdom
, where he lived in Putney
before moving to Curry Rivel
in Somerset
.
Haines is the father-in-law of Alexander Jones, FRSC
, Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
and Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
, both at New York University
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
historian.
Haines is the son of Evan George Martin Haines, who served in the Welsh Guards
Welsh Guards
The Welsh Guards is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division.-Creation :The Welsh Guards came into existence on 26 February 1915 by Royal Warrant of His Majesty King George V in order to include Wales in the national component to the Foot Guards, "..though the order...
during World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
and died in 1929 from an illness attributable to his military service. His mother was Sarah Hilda Haines née Hall, for more than a quarter of a century the highly respected district nurse and midwife in Catshill
Catshill
Not to be confused with Catshill, WalsallCatshill is a village in Worcestershire about 2.5 miles north of Bromsgrove and 10 miles south-west of Birmingham. The parish of Catshill was formed around the Turnpike Road in 1844....
, near Bromsgrove
Bromsgrove
Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England. The town is about north east of Worcester and south west of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 with a small ethnic minority and is in Bromsgrove District.- History :Bromsgrove is first documented in the early 9th century...
, who received the Royal Maundy in 1980 at Worcester. His wife, whom he married in 1957, is Carol Pamela Mary née Dight, an Oxford M.A., daughter of the late F. H. Dight O.B.E., a meteorologist.
Between 1932 and 1938 Haines was a pupil at St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford
St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford
St Michael's Preparatory School is a coeducational preparatory school in Otford.The school is located in a site in the North Downs with old and new buildings.-History:...
. He was then educated at Bromsgrove School
Bromsgrove School
Bromsgrove School, founded in 1553, is a co-educational independent school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England. The school has a long history and many notable former pupils.-History:...
, which he entered in 1938 as a foundation scholar.
Haines was educated at St. Chad's College in the University of Durham (Gisborne Scholar 1943), where he was admitted to the degrees of BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
, MA
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
, and MLitt
Master of Letters
The Master of Letters is a postgraduate degree.- United Kingdom :The MLitt is a postgraduate degree awarded by a select few British and Irish universities, predominantly within the ancient English and Scottish universities.- England :Within the English University system MLitts are not universally...
(1954) (supervised by H.S. Offler), and received a Diploma in Education
Qualified Teacher Status
Qualified Teacher Status is required in England and Wales to become, and continue being, a teacher of children in the state and special education sectors...
. While at Durham Haines came into contact with Professor Alexander Hamilton Thompson whose scholarship was to remain an abiding influence.
Haines returned to St Michael's
St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford
St Michael's Preparatory School is a coeducational preparatory school in Otford.The school is located in a site in the North Downs with old and new buildings.-History:...
as a master from 1947 until 1954. He was responsible for establishing a termly newsletter and later became Chairman of the Old Michaelian Association. Kendall Carey, a pupil at St Michael's from 1949 until 1956, described Haines as 'a superb teacher'. In addition to the standard curriculum Haines taught heraldry, architecture, and medieval battles, and demonstrated motte-and-bailey
Motte-and-bailey
A motte-and-bailey is a form of castle, with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade...
castles with sand and matchsticks.
He later studied at Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College, Oxford
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in the eighteenth century, but its predecessor on the same site had been an institution of learning since the late thirteenth century...
, with the help of a grant from the Chance Educational Trust. While there he obtained a DPhil
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
1959). Some of his publications were successfully submitted in 2010 for the degree of DLitt
Doctor of Letters
Doctor of Letters is a university academic degree, often a higher doctorate which is frequently awarded as an honorary degree in recognition of outstanding scholarship or other merits.-Commonwealth:...
of the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
.
Haines was a history master at Westminster School
Westminster School
The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxford and Cambridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college in Britain...
, where he was later promoted to housemaster
Housemaster
In British education, a housemaster is a member of staff in charge of a boarding house, normally at a boarding school . The housemaster is responsible for the supervision and care of boarders in the house and typically lives on the premises...
. He was also Assistant Editor of the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire
Victoria County History
The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of...
.
Haines moved to Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
in 1966, and specifically to Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...
in 1967. He later became Professor of Medieval History at Dalhousie
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...
.
In 1978-80 Haines was Canada Council
Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...
Killam
The Killam Trusts
The Killam Trusts were established in 1965 after the death of Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam, the wife of Izaak Walton Killam. Mr. Killam was a Canadian business figure. He died in 1955, but before his death he and his wife discussed in extensive detail a scholarship plan, on which the Killam Trusts were...
Senior Research Scholar. He spent part of the time at the Vatican Archives. In 1987/8 he was Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge
Clare Hall, Cambridge
Clare Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is a college for advanced study, admitting only postgraduate students.Informality is a defining value at Clare Hall and this contributes to its unique character...
and was appointed a life member of the college in 1990.
Haines is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Society of Antiquaries of London
The Society of Antiquaries of London is a learned society "charged by its Royal Charter of 1751 with 'the encouragement, advancement and furtherance of the study and knowledge of the antiquities and history of this and other countries'." It is based at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London , and is...
(elected 2 March 1967) and of the Royal Historical Society
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...
. In 1987 he delivered the Bertie Wilkinson Memorial Lecture at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
.
After retiring from Dalhousie
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...
Haines returned to the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, where he lived in Putney
Putney
Putney is a district in south-west London, England, located in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is situated south-west of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London....
before moving to Curry Rivel
Curry Rivel
Curry Rivel is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated west of Somerton and east of Taunton in the South Somerset district. The parish has a population of 2,093...
in Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
.
Haines is the father-in-law of Alexander Jones, FRSC
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...
, Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
The ' is a center for advanced scholarly research and graduate education that cultivates comparative and connective investigations of the ancient world from the western Mediterranean to China. It is a discrete entity within New York University, independent of any other school or department of the...
and Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is an independent division of New York University under the Faculty of Arts & Science that serves as a center for research and advanced training in computer science and mathematics...
, both at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
.
Publications
- 'Sumptuous Apparel for a Royal Prisoner: Archbishop Melton's Letter, 14 January 1330', English Historical Review, 124 (2009), 885-94
- 'Roger Mortimer's Scam', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 126 (2008), 139-56
- 'Wolstan de Bransford OSB, a Fourteenth-Century Prior and Bishop of Worcester, Transactions of the Worcester Archaeological Society, 21 (2008), 179-93
- 'The Stamford Council of April 1327', English Historical Review, 122 (2007), 141-5
- 'Bishop John Stratford's Injunctions to his Cathedral Chapter and to other Benedictine Houses in Winchester', Revue bénédictine, t. 117 (2007), 154-80
- 'The Episcopate during the Reign of Edward II and the Regency of Mortimer and Isabella', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 56 (2005), 657-709
- 'Sir Thomas Gurney of Englishcombe in the County of Somerset, Regicide?', Somerset Archaeology and Natural History: Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, 147 (2004), 45-65
- King Edward II: Edward of Caernarfon, his life, his reign, and its aftermath, 1284-1330 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003)
- 'Regular Clergy and the Episcopate in the Provinces of Canterbury and York during the Later Middle Ages', Revue bénédictine, t.105 (2003), 407-47
- Death of a King: An Account of the Supposed Escape and Afterlife of Edward of Caernarvon, formerly Edward II, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Aquitaine (Scotforth: Scotforth Books, 2002)
- 'Looking Back in Anger: A Politically-Inspired Appeal against John XXII's Translation of Bishop Adam Orleton to Winchester (1334), English Historical Review, 116 (2001), 389-404
- 'An Innocent Abroad: the Career of Simon Mepham, Archbishop of Canterbury 1328-1333', English Historical Review, 112 (1997),555-96
- Calendar of the Register of Simon de Montacute Bishop of Worcester, 1334-1337 (Worcestershire Historical Society Series, NS 15; Worcester: Worcestershire Historical Society, 1996)
- 'Bishops and Politics in the Reign of Edward II: Hamo de Hethe, Henry Wharton and the Historia Roffensis, Journal of ecclesiastical history, 44/4 (1993), 586-609
- 'The Episcopate of a Benedictine Monk: Hamo de Hethe, bishop of Rochester (1317-1352)', Revue bénédictine, t. 102 (1992), 192-207
- Ecclesia Anglicana: Studies in the English Church of the Later Middle Ages (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989)
- Archbishop John Stratford: Political Revolutionary and Champion of the Liberties of the English Church ca. 1275/80-1348 (Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) 76; Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1986)
- Calendar of the Register of Adam de Orleton Bishop of Worcester, 1327-1333 (Worcestershire Historical Society Series, NS 10/Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, joint publication no. 27; London: HMSO, 1979)
- The Church and Politics in Fourteenth-Century England: The Career of Adam Orleton, c. 1275-1345 (Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought, 3rd series, no. 10; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978)
- A Calendar of the Register of Wolstan de Bransford, Bishop of Worcester, 1339-49 (Worcestershire Historical Society Series, NS 4/Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, joint publication no. 9; London: HMSO, 1966)
- The Administration of the Diocese of Worcester in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century (London: Published for the Church Historical Society [by] SPCK, 1965)
- 'Stadhampton', in Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, vii: Dorchester and Thame Hundreds, ed. Mary Lobel (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1962), pp. 81-92
- 'The Administration of the Diocese of Worcester in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century' (University of Oxford DPhil dissertation, 1959)
- 'Bishop Bransford' (University of Durham MLitt dissertation, 1954)
- Articles in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (of which he is a Research Associate) and Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques