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Donald Auberon BulloughFRHistSFSAScotFRPSL (13 June 1928 – 26 June 2002) was a British historian who taught and published on the cultural and political history of Italy, England and Carolingian France during the early Middle Ages. He was the brother of mathematicianRobin Bullough (d. 2008).
Bullough was educated atNewcastle-under-Lyme High School, then went up toSt John's College, Oxford where he took a first in History in 1950. He held a Harmsworth Senior Scholarship atMerton College from 1951 to 1952, and a Fereday Fellowship atSt John's between 1952 and 1955.[1]
Bullough was made a Fellow of theRoyal Historical Society in 1958, and a Fellow of theSociety of Antiquaries of Scotland the following year.[1]
Bullough was successively Lecturer in Medieval History at theUniversity of Edinburgh (1955-1966), Professor of Medieval History at theUniversity of Nottingham (1966-1973) and Professor of Medieval History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at theUniversity of St Andrews (1973-1991).[2] He was made Corresponding Fellow of theMonumenta Germaniae Historica in 1983.
A collection of essays under the titleEarly Medieval Rome and the Christian West: Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough, edited by Julia Smith, was published in 2000.
Bullough was married twice: firstly in 1963 to Belinda Jane Turland,[1] they had two daughters, their marriage was dissolved in 1994; secondly in 1995 to Dr Alice Harting-Correa.[2]
Bullough died of cancer on 26 June 2002. In honour of his academic achievements, the Institute of Mediaeval Studies at theUniversity of St Andrews created the Donald Bullough Fellowship For A Mediaeval Historian.[3]
