John Nightingale (academic)
John Bartholomew Wakelyn Nightingale, Baron of Cromarty is a British academic. He is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow in History at Magdalen College.
Biography
Nightingale was born 7 September 1960. He is married to Lucy Fergusson, a partner at Linklaters LLP.He was educated at Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England and also graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, with a Master of Arts and later with a Doctor of Philosophy. At Merton College, Oxford, he was the Harmsworth Senior Research Scholar between 1984 and 1986, and was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow from 1989 to 1992. In 1986, he became a Fellow of Magdalen College and later, from 1993, a Tutor of Modern History. He was Assessor of the University of Oxford from 2008 to 2009 and a member of its governing council from 2008 to 2014. He is the current Baron of Cromarty in the Baronage of Scotland.