Andrew John Boyd Hilton, FBA (born 1944)[2] is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Hilton was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester, and New College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class honours degree in Modern History.
From 1969 to 1974, he was a research lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford.
[1] In 2007, Hilton was promoted by Cambridge to an ad hominem professorship[3] and—"partly on the strength of his widely acclaimed ... volume in the New Oxford History of England"[3]—a Fellow of the British Academy.
[5] In a 2006 review, Tristram Hunt (a former undergraduate of Hilton's college) called it a "lively and wide-ranging study that is mercifully free of dry chronology" and a "comprehensive, intriguing and challenging volume"; he notes it includes "studies of Pitt, Fox, Liverpool and Canning" as well as "accounts of phrenology, mesmerism and even early 19th-century flagellatory literature" and a "welcome concentration on economic and business matters".