Charles Arthur John Armstrong (25 June 1909 – 9 August 1994)[1] was a leading post-war English historian, known for his studies of the First Battle of St Albans and the medieval Duchy of Burgundy.
Since described as 'a model of precise scholarship,'[1] it was published by the Oxford University Press as The Usurpation of Richard III in July 1936.
[5] His career was not without incident: 'intolerant of cant or hypocrisy,' wrote Saul, he would prefer to leave the college's High Table and dine with the undergraduates if he disapproved of the dinner company forced upon him.
'[1] His interests ranged from the piety of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, to the coronation ceremonies of Yorkist kings, to the First Battle of St Albans; his detailed analysis of the latter, according to Michael Hicks, can be considered 'the last word' on the subject.
[6] He was married to another scholar,[1] Elizabeth Tyler, Emerita Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, who herself wrote upon sixteenth-century France.