Duncan Probert

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Duncan Probert Biography

Duncan Probert (born 13 April 1961, died on 15 December 2016) was a scholar of early medieval British place- and personal names, one of the editors of the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, and a council member of the English Place-Name Society from 2005 to his death. He was particularly noted for his work in his doctoral thesis and subsequent publications revising scholars’ ‘understanding of the relationship between the West Saxons and the Britons of the south west’ in early medieval Britain. This included major contributions to understanding Kingston place-names in England, and ‘searching’ and ‘painstaking’ research showing ‘how close scrutiny of charters and their bounds can allow detailed understanding of earlier land units and landscapes’.

Prior to beginning his career as a historian, Probert worked as ‘a bio-mathematician at Grasslands Research, then after a succession of other jobs (at various times he made intricate miniature model figures, drove a skip lorry, was a school caretaker, a computer programmer, and even did some building work) he started his own graphic-design business in Stoke on Trent’. He returned to education in the 1990s, completing an Open University Arts Foundation course in 1994, taking a First in his BA in Medieval Studies at University of Birmingham in 1998, and proceeding directly to a PhD at the same institution, which he completed in 2002. During 2003-6 he was a British Academy fellow at Birmingham, and a visiting lecturer in Medieval History 2006-15, as well as a Research Associate on the ‘Family Names of the UK’ project at the University of the West of England 2012-14 and, from 2010 to his death, a research fellow at King’s College, London. He also undertook historical re-enactment, mostly of the Viking Age. He ‘managed to combine the hard-headedness of real-world employment experience with an irrepressible belief in the power of human ingenuity to solve problems’.

As of May 2016, it was ‘hoped that his partner, Alison, and his friend and former supervisor, Steve Bassett, will be able to bring some of his unfinished pieces to publication in the future. Unfinished work includes a draft dictionary of Devon place-names.’

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