David A Reeder (5 May 1931 – 1 August 2005) was an English historian at the University of Leicester.
[1] Reeder was born in Kingston upon Hull, the son of a railway fireman, and evacuated to Rawcliffe and then York during World War II.
[2] After graduating from Nunthorpe Grammar School, Reeder won a scholarship at the University of Durham, where he served as Editor of Palatinate.
[3] He was a member of Hatfield College, where he was Captain of Table Tennis in 1950.
[4] Reeder took his PhD at the University of Leicester.