John Bennett Black FRHistS (1883–1964) was a Scottish historian whose primary topic of study was of Elizabethan England.
From Oxford he won the Arnold Prize in 1913 for his study of Anglo-French relations during the reign of Elizabeth I.
In 1920 he relocated to the University of Sheffield as Professor of Modern History, serving as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1923 to 1930.
[3] His 1926 work The Art of History, though now superseded, was the first important scholarly consideration of Enlightenment historiography in the twentieth century.
LLD from Glasgow in 1949, and from Aberdeen in 1954, where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1939 to 1942 and as a member of the Court from 1939 to 1947.