David Knowles (scholar)

David Knowles (scholar)

Dom David Knowles, O.S.B., DLitt, FRHistS (1896–1974), was an English Benedictine monk, Catholic priest and historian. He became Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge in 1954, retiring in 1963. His works on monasticism in England, through to the Dissolution of the monasteries, are taken as authoritative.