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| Husband: | John Herbert LE PATOUREL (1909-1981) | |
| Wife: | Hilda Elizabeth Jean BIRD (1915-2011) | |
| Marriage | 2 Dec 1939 | Wallington, Surrey, England |
| Bachelor and spinster were married by licence in Holy Trinity Church, Wallington. He was recorded as 30 and she as 24. He was living at 69 Knighton Church Road, Leicester, and she at 30 Park Lane, Wallington | ||
| Name: | John Herbert LE PATOUREL1 | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Herbert Augustus LE PATOUREL (1875-1934) | |
| Mother: | Mary Elizabeth DAW (1873-1956) | |
| Birth | 29 Jul 1909 | St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands1 |
| Census | 2 Apr 1911 (age 1) | St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands1 |
| Almorah Villas, Mont Arrivé | ||
| Education | - | |
| He was educated in Guernsey at Elizabeth College, whence he went to Jesus College Oxford in 1928 as King Charles Scholar. After gaining first class honours in Modern History in 1931, he continued at Jesus College as the Goldsmith's Company Senior Student until 1933, gaining a PhD, when he was appointed to an Assistant Lectureship at University College London. | ||
| Census | 19 Jun 1921 (age 11 yrs 10 mns) | St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands2 |
| Kyrton, Fosse André Education: Whole Time |
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| Occupation | frm 1933 to 1981 (age 23-72) | University Lecturer, Medievalist |
| In 1933 he was appointed to an Assistant Lectureship at University College London. He became a Lecturer there in 1936. In 1937 he published the results of his doctoral research at Oxford, 'The Medieval Administration of the Channel Islands, 1199-1309'. During the Second World War he lectured in history at University College, Leicester, at Bangor, and then back in London. In 1943 he was made Reader and in 1945 succeeded David Douglas as Professor of Medieval History in the University of Leeds. He remained there until he retired from that post in 1970. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972. He was then a Research Professor at Leeds until 1974 when he retired with the title Emeritus Professor. He continued with research and publication until his death on 22 July 1981. His magnum opus was The Norman Empire, published in 1976. Whilst at Leeds he took a great interest in the development of the Brotherton Library's Modern History collections and served on the Library Committee in various capacities from 1946 onwards. He was also involved in local history circles, and was President of the Thoresby Society 1949-55, of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society 1965-9, and of the Leeds Philosophical Society 1966-8. In 1966 he founded the journal 'Northern History' | ||
| Census | 29 Sep 1939 (age 30) | Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England3 |
| 2A Chiltern Parade | ||
| Occupation | 29 Sep 1939 (age 30) | Lecturer in History, University of London WC1, after 5 October, Univesity College, Leicester; Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England3 |
| Census | 1952 (age 42-43) | Ilkley, Yorkshire, England4 |
| Westcote, Hebers Ghyll Drive | ||
| Death | 22 Jul 1981 (age 71) | Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
| Westcote, Hebers Ghyll Drive, Ilkley, West Yorkshire | ||
| Probate | 28 Oct 1981 | Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
| Westcote, Hebers Ghyll Drive, Ilkley, West Yorkshire Estate valued at £68,274 |
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| Name: | Hilda Elizabeth Jean BIRD | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 19 Aug 1915 | Weymouth, Dorset, England |
| Education | 1938 (age 22-23) | Bedford College,; St Marylebone, London, England |
| Bedford College, Regent's Park Miss Hilda Elizabeth Jean Bird was one of 48 young lady students residing at Bedford College in the 1938 Electoral Register. |
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| Census | 29 Sep 1939 (age 24) | Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire5 |
| The Woodlands, Mill Lane | ||
| Occupation | 29 Sep 1939 (age 24) | Secondary School Mistress; Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire5 |
| Census | 1952 (age 36-37) | Ilkley, Yorkshire, England4 |
| Westcote, Hebers Ghyll Drive Actually Electoral Register. |
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| Occupation | Archaeologist, Academic | |
| Education | Croydon High School, then Bedford College, University of London | |
| Croydon High School before going on to Bedford College, a constituent college of the University of London, to read History. She graduated in 1938 and completed a Diploma of Education in 1939. | ||
| Death | 20 Jan 2011 (age 95) | Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
John Herbert Le Patourel FBA (29 July 1909 – 22 July 1981) was a British medieval historian and professor at the University of Leeds.
Biography
Le Patourel was born on 29 July 1909 in Guernsey, where his father, Herbert Augustus Le Patourel, was the procureur (Attorney General) from 1929 to 1934. He was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey and Jesus College, Oxford where he obtained a BA in Modern History in 1931 followed by a DPhil. In 1939 he married (Hilda Elizabeth) Jean Bird (1915–2011), who became an expert in medieval ceramics and was a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Leeds from 1967 to 1980. They had a daughter and three sons. His brother, Herbert Wallace Le Patourel, was awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II.
Career
Le Patourel's academic career began at University College, London, where he was appointed Assistant Lecturer in 1933, Lecturer in 1936 and Reader in Medieval History in 1943. In 1945, he became Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds, a post he held until 1970. He was then a Research Professor at Leeds until 1974 when he retired with the title Emeritus Professor. He was also Director of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies from 1967 to 1970.
Le Patourel was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972. He died on 22 July 1981.
Work
Much of Le Patourel's academic writing concerned the history of Guernsey and the other Channel Islands. He was Archivist to the Royal Court of Guernsey from 1946 onwards. His first book, The Medieval Administration of the Channel Islands, was published in 1937, based on his Oxford doctoral thesis. Other works included The Manor and Borough of Leeds, 1066–1400 (1957), The Building of Castle Cornet, Guernsey (1958) and The Norman Empire (1976). His papers and personal collection of books and materials relating to the Channel Islands was donated to the University of Leeds by his widow. His archives are now held at Special Collections in the Brotherton Library.
He was a founder member of the Guernsey Society, which was established in 1943 to represent the interests of the Nazi-occupied island to the British Authorities.
Legacy
In 1979, the graduate student research office at the Institute for Medieval Studies was named the 'Le Patourel Room' in his honour.
On 18 July 2015, a blue plaque was unveiled at his childhood home in Fosse Andre St Peter Port Guernsey celebrating the lives of Le Patourel and his brother, Wallace.
In 1945 when her husband was appointed to the Chair of Medieval History at Leeds, Jean Le Patourel began to develop her own interest in medieval culture, especially the medieval ceramics of Yorkshire. Jean was a member of the Society for Medieval Archaeology from its beginning, and will be remembered for her lasting contributions to the study of medieval pottery and moated sites in both Britain and Europe. Little was known about these at the time and Jean soon established herself as the regional expert, publishing specialist reports in archaeological journals which defined the main types and began to establish their distributions. Collaboration with John Hurst, the national medieval ceramics expert at the Ancient Monuments Inspectorate, led to Jean being invited to carry out a number of excavations on medieval sites in Yorkshire, including Knaresborough Castle, and on four medieval moated sites threatened with destruction. From this came a general survey of medieval moated sites in Yorkshire. These investigations at West Haddlesey, Newstead and other manorial sites resulted in her survey and classification of moated sites in Yorkshire, which extended that produced by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England for Cambridgeshire, and was published as one of the early monographs that still retains a permanent value.
The kilns which produced the pottery began to be found, in some cases through her own documentary research, and she either excavated these at Winksley and at Brandsby in North Yorkshire or produced the reports on the ceramics from them, as at Potterton and elsewhere. Jeans keen eye for fabric, decoration and shape soon made her a discerning expert able to make contributions on the subject to reports on the excavations at Kirkstall Abbey and Pontefract Priory, and classifying the Cistercian wares found at both these monuments and secular sites in Yorkshire. Her abilities in documentary research also gave her a different perspective, one anxious to understand the economic and social backgrounds of the communities whose buildings, structures and artefacts were studied. This led into excavations and reports with other colleagues on pottery kilns in Yorkshire and, taken together with her other contributions, laid the basis for medieval pottery studies in Northern England. Her papers on medieval ceramics, potters and pottery in Medieval Archaeology (1968) and Medieval Ceramics (1986) demonstrate her ability to blend the archaeological and historical evidence to provide the wider understanding the disciplines seek.
Jeans collaboration with John Hurst continued at the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy, where for many years she reported on the ceramic finds from this very long-running and now world-famous excavation. Her wide continental contacts made with the help of her husband at the many conferences they attended together, was another activity where with John Hurst, Ken Barton and others she represented researchers from Britain. Her publications in the Transactions Societée Guernasaise , the Brygen Papers and the Festschrift dedicated to John Hurst are the product of her wide ranging interests. Her research was the inspiration for the formation in 1972 of the Moated Sites Research Group of which she was the first chairman, and after this group merged with the Deserted Medieval Village Group she became appropriately a Honorary Vice President of the new Medieval Settlement Research Group. Jean was well-known and internationally respected in her field. For many years, for example, she was one of the British delegates on the Chateau Gaillard Conference on Castle Studies. Elected in 1960, she completed fifty years as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Jean Le Patourels academic career with the University of Leeds began in 1967, when she was appointed to a temporary lectureship in History and Archaeology in the then Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies. The appointment was made permanent in 1969. She was appointed as an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology in 1976. Jean is remembered as an inspiring teacher by the students of her Extra-Mural and WEA classes, many of whom first encountered archaeology from her, but went on with her encouragement and guidance to make their own contributions both as amateurs and in some cases as professionals. A seminal publication, on the history of Yorkshire boundaries, emerged from such Extra-Mural work, containing many contributions from her students. Jean was a doughty champion of archaeology within Leeds University and one of her principal achievements was the introduction of a two-year Extra-Mural Certificate in the subject.
Externally, Jean was a moving spirit behind the establishment of a Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, of which she was the first Chairman. Through her proselytising zeal, she was responsible for the recruitment of a number of new members to the Society who were to become some of its most stalwart and hard-working supporters, taking on various offices and projects; in recognition of her services, she was made a Vice-President of the Society. Locally, she was also, with Professor Le Patourel, a keen supporter of the Thoresby Society, not only taking part in the excavations at Kirkstall Abbey, but also presenting the results in the Societys Publications . She served on the Council of the Society for Medieval Archaeology, the Society of Antiquaries of London and was a member of the Ancient Monuments Board for England. She also contributed as a delegate to Ruralia, the colloquium on Medieval Settlement in Europe. She was on the Executive of the York Archaeological Trust and was President of the Ilkley Museum and Archaeological Society, as well as on committees and working parties of the Ancient Monuments Board and the Department of the Environment.
Alongside her own academic interests, Mrs Le Patourel went out of her way to support her husbands work in the School of History. She took pains to meet new members of staff in the School and was a kind and generous hostess, helping entertain her husbands tutorial groups and postgraduates, even after the family home moved from Leeds to Ilkley. Although in some ways a reserved individual, Jean Le Patourel was also well-known for her considerable charm and acts of kindness, jollity and informality. The eminent historian, Lord Asa Briggs, who held the Chair of Modern History at Leeds from 1955 until 1961, writes: I have the happiest memories of Jean. I saw a lot of John and Jean in Ilkley. Sometimes I used to walk to their house across the moors between East Morton and Ilkley, more often I went by bus from Keighley. I remember well their caravan. They went everywhere in it. They liked travel as much as I did. Jean was wonderful with students. She made them feel at home. My wife and I tried to behave in the same way.
Mrs Le Patourel retired from her University post in 1980 but continued to pursue her scholarly interests. Always a cairn terrier enthusiast, she gained much enjoyment in later years from the study and archaeological history of early dog collars, rapidly making herself an acknowledged expert.
Among her published contributions to medieval archaeology one should not overlook Jeans many reviews in Medieval Archaeology, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Antiquaries Journal and others. To all these she brought a sharp and discerning intellect, happy to share her knowledge and encourage others.
Hilda Elizabeth Jean Le Patourel FSA (19 August 1915 – 20 January 2011) was a British archaeologist. She specialised in the ceramics and pottery of Yorkshire. She later expanded her field of research to include moated sites and the archaeological remains of dog collars.
Biography
Hilda Elizabeth Jean Bird was born in Weymouth, on 19 August 1915. She was educated at Croydon High School and Bedford College, University of London, where she studied history. She graduated in 1938 and studied for a further year for a Diploma in Education. In 1939 she married John Le Patourel, who was a lecturer at University College London. In 1945 they moved to Leeds, as her husband was appointed Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds.
Career
Soon after Le Patourel arrived in Leeds, she and her husband began work on the excavations at Kirkstall Abbey, run by what was at the time City of Leeds Museums. She was responsible for the publication of the medieval ceramics from the site. At the time, the ceramics of medieval Yorkshire were little understood; by working closely with material from the assemblages at Kirkstall Abbey, then St John's Priory, Pontefract, and then from medieval York, Le Patourel was able to extend the sequencing of medieval Yorkshire pottery back further. Building on this site-specific understanding of the pottery, Le Patourel searched for kilns which produced it, exploring documentary sources such as manorial accounts and taxation lists, and utilising place-name evidence. At Winksley, near Ripon, she excavated 14th-century kilns there with C. V. Bellamy.
At the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy, Le Patourel worked on the ceramics from there with archaeologist John Hurst. Work there led to Le Patourel leading excavations at Knaresborough Castle. This led to further research on moated manors sites, such as West Haddlesey, alongside the formation of the Moated Sites Research Group, which later merged with the Deserted Medieval Village Group to form the Medieval Settlement Research Group. Le Patourel was also a founding member and the first chairman of the Medieval Section of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society.
In combination with her research on medieval ceramics and settlements, Le Patourel lectured at the University of Leeds. In 1967 she was appointed as a Temporary Lecturer in History and Archaeology in the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies.[3] This role was made permanent in 1969, and in 1976 she was appointed Associate Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology.
Alongside her work on medieval ceramics, Le Patourel became the world's leading expert on the archaeology of dog collars.
Le Patourel's husband, John, died on 21 July 1981. She died on 20 January 2011. On the day of her funeral, the flag on the Parkinson Building at the University of Leeds was flown at half-mast.
Selected publications
Kirkstall Abbey Excavations: the Pottery, 1950-4
'A Cistercian Ware Kiln of the Early Sixteenth Century at Potterton, Yorkshire', Antiquity (1966)
'Documentary Evidence and the Medieval Pottery Industry', Medieval Archaeology (1968)
'Four Medieval Pottery-Kilns on Woodhouse Farm, Winksley, near Ripon, W. Riding of Yorkshire', Medieval Archaeology (1970)
The Moated Sites of Yorkshire (1973)
'A Select Bibliography of the Publications of John Le Patourel 1935–1975', Northern History (1975)
'Les sites fossoyés (moated sites) et leurs problèmes (l'organisation de la recherche en Grande Bretagne)', Revue du Nord (1976)
'Documentary Evidence', 'The Excavation of Moated Sites' & 'The Significance of Moated Sites', in Medieval Moated Sites (1978)
Eds. Hilda Elizabeth Jean Le Patourel, Moira H. Long, May F. Pickles, Yorkshire Boundaries (1993)
'The Dog Collar', in Late Viking Age and Medieval Waterford (1997)
| 1 | Text From Source: Census England 1911 Address: Almorah Villas, Mont Arrivé Place: St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands Name,Relation,Sex,Age,Married,Years,Chd Born,Chd Living,Chd Died,Occupation,Industry,Employ Status,At Home,Where Born,Nationality,Infirmity Herbert Augustus Le Patourel,Head,M,35,M,,,,,Advocate, Royal Court, Guernsey,,,,St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands,, Mary Elizabeth Le Patourel,Wife,F,37,M,2,1,1,,,,,,Crediton, Devon, England,, John Herbert Le Patourel,Son,M,1,S,,,,,,,,,St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands,, Margaret Daw,Sister-in-law,F,29,S,,,,,,,,,Sandford, Devon, England,, |
| 2 | Text From Source: Census England 1921 Address: Kyrton, Fosse André Place: St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands Name,Relation,Age,Sex,Marr/Orph'd,Birthplace,Nationality,Education,Occupation,Employment,Place of Work,Chd <16,Children's Ages Herbert Augustus Le Patourel,Head,46,M,Married,St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands,,,H.M. Solicitor General,Employer,Manor Place, Guernsey,2,5, 11 Mary Elizabeth Le Patourel,Wife,46y 5m,F,Married,Crediton, Devon, England,,,,,, John Herbert Le Patourel,Son,11y 10m,M,Both Alive,St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands,,Whole Time,,,,, Herbert Wallace Le Patourel,Son,5y 0m,M,Both Alive,St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands,,,,,,, There was a 17 year old servant living in - Violet May Fustie. |
| 3 | Text From Source: Register England & Wales 1939 Address: 2A Chiltern Parade Place: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England Name of person,Status,Gender,Birthdate,Condition,Occupation,Comments Le Patourel, John H,M,29 Jul 1909,S,Lecturer in History, University of London WC1, after 5 October, Univesity College, Leicester, |
| 4 | Text From Source: Electoral Register UK 1952 Address: Westcote, Hebers Ghyll Drive Place: Ilkley, Yorkshire, England Name of person,Address Le Patourel, John Herbert,Westcote, Hebers Ghyll Drive, Le Patourel, Hilda Elizabeth Jean,Westcote, Hebers Ghyll Drive, |
| 5 | Text From Source: Register England & Wales 1939 Address: The Woodlands, Mill Lane Place: Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire Name of person,Status,Gender,Birthdate,Condition,Occupation,Comments Bird, Hilda Elizabeth Jean,,F,19 Aug 1915,S,Secondary School Mistress, |