Joseph Robson Tanner

Joseph Robson Tanner (28 July 1860 – 15 Jan. 1931) was an English historian, an expert on Samuel Pepys, author of numerous publications and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.^[1][2][3]

Life[]

Tanner was born in Frome, Somerset, the eldest son of Joseph Tanner. He was educated at Mill Hill School, London, and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took a First in the Historical Tripos in 1882. He was President of the Cambridge Union Society in Easter Term, 1883. He was a lecturer in History at St John's, from 1883 to 1921, and lecturer on Indian History to Indian Civil Service students, from 1885 to 1893.

In 1883 Tanner became a Fellow of St John's and was an Assistant Tutor from 1895 to 1900, a Tutor from 1900 to 1912, and Tutorial Bursar, 1900–21. He served as a deputy to the Regius Professor of Modern History, 1926–27.^[4]

In 1888 Tanner married Charlotte Maria, second daughter of George J. Larkman of Belton. After living in Cambridge for forty-two years he moved to Woodside, Aldeburgh, Suffolk. He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.

Select publications[]

• Hollond's Discourses of the Navy, 1896
• Pepys' Memoirs of the Royal Navy, ed., 1906
• An Historical Register of the University of Cambridge, 1917
• Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy [Lees Knowles Lectures, 1919], 1920
• Tudor Constitutional Documents, 1485–1603, 1922
• Mr Pepys, An Introduction to the Diary, 1925
• Pepy's Naval Minutes, 1926
• Private Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1679–1703, 1926
• English Constitutional Conflicts, 1603–1689, 1928
• Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, 1662–1679, 1929
• Constitutional Documents of the Reign of James I, 1930

Student reading Tanner's English Constitutional Conflicts at Shimer College in 1973.

References[]

External links[]

• Joseph Robson Tanner at Find a Grave