Claire Cross

Professor M. C. Cross FSA FRHistS
Born	1932
Nationality	British
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	University of Reading University of York

M. Claire Cross FSA FRHistS is a British historian and professor emeritus in history at the University of York. She was president of the Ecclesiastical History Society from 1989 to 1990.

Education

Cross studied at the University of Cambridge before becoming county archivist for Cambridgeshire. Cross also studied at the Huntingdon Library in California, then held a research fellowship at the University of Reading before becoming lecturer at the University of York (1965-2000).

Career

In 1958, Cross was appointed the County Archivist for Cambridgeshire.

Cross was a visiting fellow at Girton College, Cambridge from 1990 to 1991. She was president of the Ecclesiastical History Society from 1989 to 1990 and the Society presented her with a festschrift, Life and Thought in the Northern Church, c.1100-1700 in 1999 and made her an honorary fellow in 2000. Cross was chair and later vice-president of the British Association for Local History.

Awards and recognition

Cross was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Royal Historical Society, Historical Association, and was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Lincoln.

Publications

• Church and people, 1450-1660 : the triumph of the laity in the English church (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1976; second edition 1999)
• The royal supremacy in the Elizabethan Church (London, Allen & Unwin; New York, Barnes & Noble, 1969)
• (and D. M. Loades, J. J. Scarisbrick), Law and government under the Tudors: essays presented to Sir Geoffrey Elton, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, on the occasion of his retirement (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988)
• The puritan Earl: the life of Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, 1536-1595 (London, Melbourne Macmillan; New York, St. Martin's P., 1966)
• Urban magistrates and ministers: religion in Hull and Leeds from the Reformation to the Civil War (Borthwick Papers No. 67, York: University of York, 1985).
• The Free Grammar School of Leicester (Leicester University Press, 1953)
• The Letters of Sir Francis Hastings, 1574-1609, Somerset Record Society (1969)
• York Clergy Wills 1520-1600: 1 The Minster Clergy, Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province, 10 (York, 1984).
• York Clergy Wills 1520-1600: 2. The City Clergy, Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 15 (York, 1989).