John Bartholomew Wakelyn Nightingale, Baron of Cromarty (born 7 September 1960) is a British academic. He is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in History at Magdalen College.
Biography Nightingale was born 7 September 1960. He is married to Lucy Fergusson, a partner at Linklaters LLP.
He was educated at Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England and also graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a Master of Arts and later with a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.). At Merton College, Oxford, he was the Harmsworth Senior Research Scholar between 1984 and 1986, and was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow from 1989 to 1992. In 1986, he became a Fellow of Magdalen College and later, from 1993, a Tutor of Modern History. He was Assessor of the University of Oxford from 2008 to 2009 and a member of its governing council from 2008 to 2014.University of Oxford Calendar He is the current Baron of Cromarty in the Baronage of Scotland.
Bibliography Hidden Magdalen (2008) (associate editor) Monasteries and Patrons in the Gorze Reform: Lotharingia c.850-1000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) 'Oswald, Fleury and Continental Reform', in Nicholas Brooks and Catherine Cubitt, eds., St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1996), pp. 23-45 'Bishop Gerard of Toul (963-94) and Attitudes to Episcopal Office', in Timothy Reuter, ed., Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Karl Leyser (London: Hambledon Press, 1992), pp. 41-62
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