J. E. Neale

Sir John Ernest Neale FBA (7 December 1890 in Liverpool – 2 September 1975) was an English historian who specialised in Elizabethan and Parliamentary history.

[2] In 1955, Neale was knighted, and on 17 November 1958 he delivered a lecture in Washington, D.C. commemorating Elizabeth I's accession to the English throne four hundred years previously.

[1] From 1956, Neale was Professor Emeritus, but continued to do some academic teaching at University College London.

[4] Neale is well known for his thesis on the Elizabethan Puritan Choir, in which he claimed that a group of Puritan MPs successfully managed to force Elizabeth's hand on many policy issues throughout her reign, including at the start.

Neale is also recognised for his work in bringing to light new sources on Tudor England, and developing different ways of studying the period.