Wallace T. MacCaffrey

Wallace T. MacCaffrey (1920-2013) was Professor Emeritus of History at Harvard University.[1] He was a graduate of Reed College and Harvard University.[2] He also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and Haverford College. Among his awards is a Guggenheim fellowship.[3] He was a leading scholar of Elizabethan England, best known for his trilogy of books, The Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime (1968), Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy, 1572-1588 (1981) and Elizabeth I: War and Politics, 1588-1603 (1992).

He died, aged 93, on 13 December 2013 at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, following a short illness and is buried at St Andrew's church, Girton.

Chairmanships at Harvard

MacCaffrey served as the Harvard History chair twice, and presided over a period of turmoil in the department.[4]

Reed donation

He gave Reed College a $1 million donation in 2006.

Personal life

He was married to Isabel Gamble and spent his retirement living in Girton near Cambridge, England.

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References
  1. Harvard University History Department - Faculty Emeriti
  2. Reed Magazine: News of the College
  3. Wallace T. MacCaffrey - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  4. Promotional Problems | News | The Harvard Crimson
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