My friend John Prest, who has died aged 89, was a historian, dedicated tutor at Balliol College, Oxford, gardener and family man of quiet distinction. He will be admired by future historians for his scholarship, humanity and intellectuail independence.His meticulously researched studies of 19th-century reform included The Industrial Revolution in Coventry (1960), Lord John Russell (1972) and Liberty and Locality (1990), as well as The Illustrated History of Oxford University (1993). Continue reading…
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