George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (14 June 1900 – 8 December 1975) was an English historian, specialising in the nineteenth century.
[3] His paternal grandfather was E. C. Clark, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge.
[1] He lived the life of a bachelor don as a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, his alma mater, from 1922 to 1975.
[5][6][7] G. D. H. Cole identified a "Kitson Clark" school of historians revising the assessment of the Anti-Corn Law League and the Chartists.
Jack Plumb, who disliked Kitson Clark, describes him as a reformer of the History Tripos[9] and obstacle to Lewis Namier,[10] with various swipes.