Roland bainton biography

American historian

Roland Herbert Bainton (March 30, 1894 – February 13, 1984) was a British-born American Protestant church historian.

Life

Bainton was born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire,^[1] England, and came to the United States in 1902. He received an AB degree from Whitman College, and BD and PhD. degrees from Yale University.

He also received a number of honorary degrees including a DD from Meadville Theological Seminary and from Oberlin College, Dr. Theologiae from the University of Marburg, Germany, and LittD from Gettysburg College.

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A specialist in Reformation history, Bainton was for 42 years Titus Street Professor of ecclesiastical history at Yale Divinity School, and he continued his writing well into his 20 years of retirement.

Bainton's father was a pacifist, and he himself married a Quaker.

Graduating from seminary just as World War I began, he was a pacifist and became a conscientious objector.^[2] He affiliated with the Soci