Peter Kidson (23 August 1925 – 10 February 2019) was a British Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where he lectured on Medieval Architecture until 1990.
[1][2][3][4][5] In his obituary in The Telegraph, he was described as “the most influential historian of medieval architecture of his generation in the English-speaking world”.
[6] Kidson spent 1943 to 1946 on a scholarship to the University of Cambridge (interrupted by WW2 when he was conscripted into the Royal Navy), and graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
From 1950 to 1959, he studied at the Courtauld (MA & PhD) alongside Brian Sewell; their tutors included Anthony Blunt, on whom Kidson wrote a memoir for The British Academy in 2016.
He was appointed full lecturer at the Courtauld in 1967, where he remained until his retirement as Professor of Medieval Architecture in 1990.