Joseph Robson Tanner

Joseph Robson Tanner (28 July 1860 – 15 January 1931) was an English historian, an expert on Samuel Pepys, author of numerous publications and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

He was educated at Mill Hill School, London, and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took a First in the Historical Tripos in 1882.

[4] In 1888 Tanner married Charlotte Maria, second daughter of George J. Larkman of Belton.

After living in Cambridge for forty-two years he moved to Woodside, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.