Roger Schofield

Roger Snowden Schofield,FBA,FRHistS,FSS(26 August 1937 – 8 April 2019) was a British social scientist, social historian, demographer and academic. He was director of theCambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structurebetween 1974 and 1994, and a fellow ofClare College, Cambridge,from 1969 until his death.

Schofield was born on 26 August 1937 and educated atLeighton Park SchoolandClare College, Cambridge,where he completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies.

Having completed hisPhDin 1963,^[1]Schofield was appointed aresearch assistantto theCambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structurein 1966.^[2]He was appointed the Group's director in 1974; he stepped down in 1994,^[2]but remained involved with the Group as asenior research associateuntil retiring in 1998.^[1]He had also been elected to afellowshipat Clare College in 1969. Schofield served as president of theBritish Society for Population Studiesfrom 1985 to 1987^[2]and was elected aFellow of the Royal Historical Societyin 1970, aFellow of the Royal Statistical Societyin 1987^[1]and aFellow of the British Academy(the United Kingdom'snational academyfor the humanities and social sciences) in 1988.^[3]TheUniversity of Cambridgeawarded him ahigher doctoratein 2005. Schofield died on 8 April 2019.^[1]

Publications

(Co-authored withTony Wrigley)The Population History of England 1541–1871: A Reconstruction(Edward Arnold,1981).
(Co-edited with John Walter)Famine, Disease, and the Social Order in Early Modern Society,Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (Cambridge University Press,1989).
(Co-authored withTony Wrigley,R. S. Davies and Jim Oeppen)English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580–1837,Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time (Cambridge University Press,1997).
Taxation Under the Early Tudors 1485–1547(Blackwell,2004).