Charles Patrick Wormald was an English historian. Patrick Wormald was born in Neston, Cheshire, son of historian Brian Wormald. He attended Eton College as a King's Scholar and studied Modern History at Balliol College where he was tutored by Maurice Keen. He won a seven year Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He taught Early Medieval History at the University of Glasgow from 1974 to 1988, where he met and married fellow-historian Jenny Brown.

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  • Charles Patrick Wormald was an English historian. Patrick Wormald was born in Neston, Cheshire, son of historian Brian Wormald. He attended Eton College as a King's Scholar and studied Modern History at Balliol College where he was tutored by Maurice Keen. He won a seven year Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He taught Early Medieval History at the University of Glasgow from 1974 to 1988, where he met and married fellow-historian Jenny Brown. They had two sons, but their marriage was dissolved in 2001. In 1989 he returned to Oxford as a Fellow of Christ Church where he tutored students of Medieval History. His greatest work, which took many years to produce, was The making of English law, the first volume of which was published in 1999. In 2009, a collection of essays written by leading scholars in Wormald's honour was published under the title Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, edited by Stephen Baxter et al. The book is introduced by articles on Wormald's person and his academic output.
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  • Charles Patrick Wormald was an English historian. Patrick Wormald was born in Neston, Cheshire, son of historian Brian Wormald. He attended Eton College as a King's Scholar and studied Modern History at Balliol College where he was tutored by Maurice Keen. He won a seven year Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He taught Early Medieval History at the University of Glasgow from 1974 to 1988, where he met and married fellow-historian Jenny Brown.
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  • Patrick Wormald
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