Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot FRHistS (26 January 1890 – 18 February 1969) was an English historian; he was Professor of American History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1951 to 1953.
[2] He was the elder son of Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot MD FRCS (1860-1927),[3] a barrister and alumnus of Trinity College, Oxford, and Beatrice Violette Clarke, and was born in Addlestone, Surrey.
[4] He was educated at Bedales School and then won a scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford.
He became senior lecturer in 1926 and in 1927 moved to the University of Manchester as Reader in Modern History.
Much of Bellot's work was as a source discoverer and compiler, and published in academic journals.