Timothy David Barnes FBA FRSC (born 13 March 1942) is a British classicist.
He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, until 1960, going up to Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Literae Humaniores, taking his B.A.
In 1982 he was awarded both the Philip Schaff Prize by the American Society of Church History for Constantine and Eusebius[1] and the Charles Goodwin Award of Merit by the American Philological Association.
In December 2007, he officially retired from the University of Toronto, and returned to the United Kingdom.
He is currently an honorary fellow at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity,[2] working with the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins.