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David Starkey CBE FSA FRHistS (born David Robert Starkey;〔Starkey had his middle name in 1986 when he stood for election but it was not mentioned when he was awarded his CBE in 2007.〕 3 January 1945) is a British constitutional historian and a radio and television presenter. Born the only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before studying at Cambridge University through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King Henry VIII's household. From Cambridge he moved to the London School of Economics, where he was a lecturer in history until 1998. Starkey is a well-known radio and television personality, first appearing on television in 1977. While a regular contributor to the BBC Radio 4 debate programme ''The Moral Maze'', his acerbic tongue earned him the sobriquet of "rudest man in Britain";〔 his frequent appearances on ''Question Time'' have been received with criticism and applause. Starkey has presented several history documentaries. In 2002 he signed a £2 million contract with Channel 4 for 25 hours of programming. Recently, he was a contributor on the Channel 4 series ''Jamie's Dream School''. He has written several books on the Tudors. Starkey was appointed CBE in 2007. He is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society and an ardent supporter of gay equality movements. He lives in Kent. ==Early years and education== David Starkey was born on 3 January 1945 in Kendal. He is the only child of Robert Starkey and Elsie Lyon, Quakers who had married 10 years previously in Bolton, at a Friends meeting house. His father, the son of a cotton spinner, was a foreman in a washing-machine factory, while his mother followed in her father's footsteps and became a cotton weaver and later a cleaner.〔 Starkey is equivocal about his mother, describing her as both "wonderful", in that she helped develop his ambition, and "monstrous", intellectually frustrated and living through her son.〔 "She was a wonderful but also very frightening parent. Finally, she was a Pygmalion. She wanted a creature, she wanted something she had made."〔 Her dominance contrasted sharply to his father, who was "poetic, reflective, rather solitary...as a father he was weak."〔 Their relationship was "distant", but improved after his mother's death in 1977.〔 Starkey was born with two club feet. One was fixed early, while the other had to be operated on several times.〔 He also suffered from polio.〔 He suffered a nervous breakdown at secondary school, aged 13, and was taken by his mother to a boarding house in Southport, where he spent several months recovering. Starkey blamed the episode on the unfamiliar experience of being in a "highly competitive environment".〔 He ultimately excelled at Kendal Grammar School, winning debating prizes and appearing in school plays.〔 Although he showed an early inclination toward science, he chose instead to study history. A scholarship enabled his entry into Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,〔 where he gained a first, a PhD and a fellowship.〔 Starkey was fascinated by King Henry VIII, and his thesis focused on the Tudor monarch's inner household. His doctoral supervisor was Sir Geoffrey Elton, an expert on the Tudor period. Starkey claimed that with age his mentor became "tetchy" and "arrogant". In 1983, when Elton was awarded a knighthood, Starkey derided one of his essays, ''Cromwell Redivivus'' and Elton responded by writing an "absolutely shocking" review of a collection of essays Starkey had edited. Starkey later expressed his remorse over the spat: "I regret that the thing happened at all." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Starkey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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