J. M. Beattie, Date of Birth, Date of Death

J. M. Beattie

historian

Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1932

Date of Death: 12-Jul-2017

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

John Maurice Beattie (1932 – 12 July 2017) was a British legal historian. He as born in Dunstan near Newcastle upon Tyne, England and studied history at the University of San Francisco.
He was awarded a master's degree by the University of California and a PhD by King's College, Cambridge, where his supervisor was John H.
Plumb.
Beattie was appointed to the University of Toronto's Department of History in 1961, where he was a member for 35 years.His Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 is considered a seminal work in criminal and legal history.