Vivian Hunter Galbraith FBA (15 December 1889 – 25 November 1976) was an English historian, fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History.
Galbraith was awarded a first class in modern history by the University in 1910, and won a Brackenbury scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford.
Galbraith became the Langton research fellow at Manchester University and began studying the records of Bury St Edmunds Abbey.
He served as a company commander in the Queen's Regiment and was awarded the Croix de Guerre avec palme for his courage in Palestine in 1917 and France in 1918.
[2] This animosity was reciprocated, Trevor-Roper accusing Galbraith of contributing to a provincial and backward-looking culture in the study of history at Oxford.
[9] He married, in 1954, Isobel Gibson Graham, a teacher who was later prominent on the board of the Girls' Day School Trust: they had two sons.
[9] Mary joined the Diplomatic Service in 1951 and became First Secretary to the UK Permanent Delegation to the United Nations in 1961, resigning on her marriage to Antony Ross Moore in 1963.
In 1957, he was awarded a Festschrift: it was titled Facsimiles of English Royal Writs to A.D. 1100, and edited by T. A. M. Bishop and Pierre Chaplais.