Kenneth Harold Dobson Haley, FBA (19 April 1920 – 2 July 1997) was a British historian who specialised in seventeenth century British and Dutch history. [1]
Haley was born in Southport, Lancashire (now Merseyside). He attended Huddersfield College before winning a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a First in history. [1] He taught at the University of Sheffield's history department from 1947 to 1982, spending the last 20 years as Professor of Modern History. [1] In 1968 the Oxford University Press published his magnum opus, a biography of the leader of the first Whigs, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. [1] He was awarded a Fellowship of the British Academy in 1987. [1]
He was a Methodist and in 1948 he married Iris Houghton. [1]