Richard Lee Greaves (September 11, 1938 – June 17, 2004) was an American historian of seventeenth century British history who was also Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of History at Florida State University.
[1][2] He was born in Glendale, California and was educated at Bethel College, where he graduated in 1960, and Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, where he obtained an MA in 1962.
[2] His 1969 work The Puritan Revolution and Educational Thought was awarded the Walter D. Love Prize of the Conference on British Studies and his Society and Religion in Elizabethan England (1981) was shortlisted for the Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize of the American Historical Association.
[2] He also wrote a trilogy on the British radical underground in Restoration Britain: Deliver Us from Evil (1986), Enemies under His Feet (1990) and Secrets of the Kingdom (1992).
He also edited the three-volume work Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century between 1982 and 1984, for which he wrote more than 180 of its entries.