Paul Langford FBA FRHistS (20 November 1945 – 27 July 2015) was a British historian.
[1] From 2000 until late 2012 he was the rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, succeeded by professor Henry Woudhuysen.
Educated at Monmouth School and Hertford College, Oxford, Langford was elected to a junior research fellowship in modern history at Lincoln College in 1969, becoming a tutorial fellow in 1970.
He was a lecturer at the University of Oxford from 1971 to 1994, being elected a reader in modern history in 1994 and becoming a professor in 1996.
"[3] He held this post until returning to Oxford to take up the rectorship of Lincoln College in 2000.