K. H. D. Haley, Date of Birth, Date of Death

K. H. D. Haley

Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1920

Date of Death: 02-Jul-1997

Profession: historian

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Kenneth Harold Dobson Haley, (19 April 1920 – 2 July 1997) was a British historian who specialised in seventeenth century British and Dutch history.Haley was born in Southport, Merseyside.
He attended Huddersfield College before winning a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a First in history.
He taught at the University of Sheffield's history department from 1947 to 1982, spending the last 20 years as Professor of Modern History.
In 1968 the Oxford University Press published his magnum opus, a biography of the leader of the first Whigs, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.
He was awarded a Fellowship of the British Academy in 1987.He was a Methodist and in 1948 he married Iris Houghton.