found: Wikipedia, March 31, 2014(Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton, 29 March 1892 - 18 April 1973; British historian; educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford; commissioned into the 4th Hampshire Regiment in September 1914 and served in Mesopotamia; was elected a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford in 1919, and was lecturer in modern history from 1919 to 1939, dean of the college between 1921 and 1923 and tutor from 1927 to 1934)
found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, February 10, 2016(Elton, Godfrey, first Baron Elton (1892-1973), historian, was born at Sherington rectory, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, on 29 March 1892; in September 1914 he was commissioned in the 4th Hampshire regiment and saw service in Mesopotamia; during the siege of Kut al-Amara he was wounded, and was then taken into captivity in Turkey when Kut surrendered in April 1916; after the war ended Queen's College, Oxford, elected him in 1919 to a fellowship and praelectorship in modern history; Elton was dean of Queen's College from 1921 to 1923 and tutor from 1927 to 1934; his only strictly historical publication was The Revolutionary Idea in France, 1789-1878 (1923), which went to many impressions; he was a strong admirer of the prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, and in 1939 he published the first volume of his biography; he wrote the notice of MacDonald for the Dictionary of National Biography as well as that of Philip Guedalla; in 1934 Elton was made a baron; he wrote several books, including novels and, in 1938, an autobiographical volume, Among Others, as well as delivering a series of radio broadcast talks between 1937 and 1938, It occurs to me, which were published in 1939; in 1939 Elton gave up his teaching fellowship at Queen's and became a supernumerary fellow; in later years he served as secretary to the Rhodes Trust (1939-1959); Elton died at his home, the Dower House, Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire, on 18 April 1973, and was succeeded in the barony by his son Rodney)
