Rhys Isaac

Rhys Llywelyn Isaac (20 November 1937 – 6 October 2010)[1] was a South African-born Australian historian of American history who also worked in the United States.

In 1959 he was the Cape Province Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College (Oxford), earning his Ph.D. in 1962.

In 1975 he was a distinguished visiting professor of early American history at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

In 2004 Isaac published Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation, which made use of the exemplary diary of a Virginian landholder and member of the House of Burgesses.

Isaac died at his home in Blairgowrie, Victoria, Australia, on 6 October 2010, aged 72, from cancer.