Anthony Steel (historian)

Anthony Steel OBE
Steel, c. 1950-60s
Born	Anthony Bedford Steel (1900-02-24)24 February 1900
Died	3 October 1973(1973-10-03) (aged 73)
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Medieval English history
Institutions	Christ's College, Cambridge University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Wales
Notable students	A. Rupert Hall
Vice-chancellor of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Wales
In office 1949–1966
Preceded by	Frederick Rees
Succeeded by	C. W. L. Bevan

Anthony Bedford Steel OBE (24 February 1900 – 3 October 1973) was a British historian, specialising in medieval England. He was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and principal of University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire from 1949 to 1966. Among his publications were a monograph on the reign of Richard II, as well as a biography of the 19th-century writer Robert Smith Surtees, titled Jorrick's England. He also translated Albert Sorel's L'Europe et la Revolution Francaise into English (as Europe and the French Revolution).

Family

Steel was born in India to Ethel Mary Steel (née Robinson) and Major Edwin Beford Steel, a doctor in the British Army, who was stationed in India at the time. He had a younger sister, Rachel Mary, and a younger brother, Christopher Bedford. Major Steel was in active service with the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I and died of his wounds in 1914.

Publications

• Jorrocks's England: On the Works of Robert Smith Surtees (London: Methuen & Co., 1932).
• Richard II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941).
• The Custom of the Room; or, Early Wine-Books of Christ's College, Cambridge (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons 1951).
• The Receipt of the Exchequer, 1377–1485 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954).