Sir John Huxtable ElliottFBA (23 June 1930 – 10 March 2022) was a British historian andHispanist who wasRegius Professor at theUniversity of Oxford and honorary fellow ofOriel College, Oxford, andTrinity College, Cambridge.^[1][2] He published under the nameJ. H. Elliott.

Born inReading, Berkshire, on 23 June 1930, Elliott was educated atEton College andTrinity College, Cambridge. He was an assistant lecturer atCambridge University from 1957 to 1962 and Lecturer in History from 1962 until 1967, and was subsequently Professor of History atKing's College, London, between 1968 and 1973. In 1972 he was elected to theFellowship of theBritish Academy. He was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1977 and theAmerican Philosophical Society in 1982.^[3][4] Elliott was Professor in the School of Historical Studies at theInstitute for Advanced Study inPrinceton, New Jersey, from 1973 to 1990, and wasRegius Professor of Modern History, Oxford, between 1990 and 1997.^[5][6][7]

He held honorary doctorates from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1983), the universities of Genoa (1992), Portsmouth (1993), Barcelona (1994), Warwick (1995), Brown University (1996), Valencia (1998), Lleida (1999), Complutense University of Madrid (2003), College of William & Mary (2005), London (2007), Charles III University of Madrid (2008), Seville (2011),Alcalá (2012), and Cambridge (2013).^[6] Elliott was a Fellow of theRothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, of whose Founding Council he was also a member.^[8]

Elliott was knighted in the1994 New Year Honours for services to history^[9] and was decorated withCommander of Isabella the Catholic in 1987, theGrand Cross of Alfonso the Wise in 1988, the Grand Cross of Isabella the Catholic in 1996, and theCreu de Sant Jordi in 1999. An eminentHispanist, he was given thePrince of Asturias Prize in 1996 for his contributions to thesocial sciences. For his outstanding contributions to the history of Spain and theSpanish Empire in the early modern period, Elliott was awarded theBalzan Prize for History, 1500–1800, in 1999.^[6] He was a corresponding member of theReal Academia de la Historia since 1965.^[10]

His studies of theIberian Peninsula and the Spanish Empire helped the understanding of the problems confronting 16th- and 17th-century Spain, and the attempts of its leaders to avert its decline.^[11] He is considered, together withRaymond Carr andAngus Mackay, a major figure in developing Spanish historiography.^[12]

Elliott's principal publications areThe Revolt of the Catalans (1963);The Old World and the New, 1492–1650 (1970); andThe Count-Duke of Olivares (1986).^[7] HisRichelieu and Olivares (1987) won theLeo Gershoy Award of theAmerican Historical Association^[13] and, in 1992, thePrize XVIIe. In 2006, his bookEmpires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 was published by Yale University Press, winning theFrancis Parkman Prize the following year. In 2012, he published his reflections on the progress of historical scholarship inHistory in the Making.^[7]

In 1995,Spain, Europe, and the Atlantic World: Essays in Honour of John H. Elliott, edited byRichard L. Kagan andGeoffrey Parker, was published by Cambridge University Press.

Elliott was hospitalised due to pneumonia and kidney complications, at theJohn Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, on 5 March 2022. He died on 10 March, at the age of 91.^[14][15]

• The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain, 1598–1640 (Cambridge University Press, 1963; pbk reprint, 1984).ISBN 978-0521278904
• Imperial Spain: 1469–1716 (London 1963, revised repr. Penguin Books, 2002).ISBN 978-0141007038
• Europe Divided, 1559–1598 (London 1963; 2nd ed. 2000).ISBN 978-0631217800
• The Old World and The New 1492–1650 (Cambridge University Press, 1970; pbk reprint, 2008).ISBN 978-0521427098
• Memoriales y cartas del Conde-Duque de Olivares, 2 vols. (with José F. de la Peña) (Madrid 1978–80).ISBN 978-8420401119
• Richelieu andOlivares (Cambridge University Press, 1984; pbk reprint, 2003).ISBN 978-0521262057
• The Count-Duke Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline (Yale University Press 1986, revised repr. 1989).ISBN 978-0300044997
• Spain and Its World, 1500–1700: Selected Essays (Yale University Press, 1989; pbk reprint, 1990).ISBN 978-0300048636
• The World of the Favourite (edited, with L. W. B. Brockliss) (Yale University Press, 1999).ISBN 978-0300076448
• The Sale of the Century: Artistic Relations between Spain and Great Britain, 1604–1655 (withJonathan Brown) (Yale University Press 2002).ISBN 978-0300097610
• A Palace for a King: TheBuen Retiro and the Court ofPhilip IV, withJonathan Brown (Yale University Press, 2003 [1986]).ISBN 978-0300101850
• Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain, 1492–1830 (Yale University Press, 2006).ISBN 978-0300123999
• Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500–1800 (Yale University Press, 2009).ISBN 978-0300145373
• History in the Making (Yale University Press, 2012).ISBN 978-0300186383
• Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion (Yale University Press, 2018; pbk reprint, 2020).ISBN 978-0300253382

• National Portrait Gallery painting "Historians of 'Past and Present'" by Stephen Frederick Godfrey Farthing
• "The Passionate Historian – A Conversation with John H. Elliott"Archived 27 July 2014 at theWayback Machine,Ideas Roadshow, 2013

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