Louis Francis Salzman[1] CBE FSA (26 March 1878 – 4 April 1971) was a British economic historian who specialised in the medieval period.
[2] He studied natural sciences, aiming to make a career in medicine; however, after inheriting a small private income, he gave this up to work in history.
He did not serve in the First World War, through ill-health; he taught at St George's School, Harpenden from 1916 to 1918.
He held the post until 1949, overseeing the production of fifteen volumes, covering Oxfordshire and Warwickshire as well as Sussex, and was succeeded by Ralph Pugh.
In 1955, he was appointed as a Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and in 1965 awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Sussex.