David Loades was born in Cambridge in 1934, and educated at the Perse School and Emmanuel College. I graduated with first class honours in 1958, and began research under the supervision of Dr. (later Professor Sir Geoffrey) Elton. My subject was the political and religious opposition to the Catholic regime of Mary Tudor, work for which I was awarded the Prince Consort Prize and Seeley Medal in 1961. In 1961 I became a Lecturer in Political Science at Queen’s College, Dundee (then a part of the University of St. Andrews), moving to Durham as a Lecturer in History in 1963. There I became first Senior Lecturer (1970) and then Reader (1977) before moving in 1980 to the Chair of History at the University of Wales, Bangor. During my time in Bangor I was elected (1988-9) to a visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and (1993) to a Vice-Chancellor’s visiting Fellowship in the Universities of New Zealand. I retired from my chair in 1995, and moved to Oxfordshire.

From 1993 to 2004 I was Director of the British Academy John Foxe Project, designed to prepare an on-line edition of the Acts and Monuments, based on the four original texts. From 1996 until its completion in 2008 this project was based in the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Sheffield, and in that connection I held an Honorary Chair in the History Department of that University. Since 2008 I have been an Honorary Member of the History Faculty of the University of Oxford, and attended graduate seminars on Early Modern Britain, and on History and Theology My current research interests are Tudor England and the Reformation, particularly the church of Mary Tudor, the reign of Henry VIII and the Tudor Navy. I have been a Trustee of the Alderney Maritime Trust since 1993.

In 1997 I moved to Burford in Oxfordshire, where my address is:

The Cottage,

Priory Lane,

Burford,

Oxon. OX18 4SG

Tel. 01993 822625

e-mail david@history.u-net.com

I am currently active in the parish church of Burford, and in Witney Deanery of the Diocese of Oxford, of which I am the Lay Chair. I have also been a lifelong member of the Scout Association, and was Chief Commissioner in Wales from 1989 to 1996. I am presently a Life Vice-President of the Welsh Scout Council.