Frank Barlow (19 April 1911 – 27 June 2009[1]) was an English historian, known particularly for biographies of medieval figures.
His subjects included Edward the Confessor, Thomas Becket and William Rufus.
Barlow attended Newcastle-under-Lyme High School.
He earned a scholarship to study History at St John's College, Oxford.
[3] He was a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature,[4] and was appointed commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours "for services to the study of English medieval history".