J. B. Bury

John Bagnell Bury FBA
Born	(1861-10-16)16 October 1861 County Monaghan, Ireland
Died	1 June 1927(1927-06-01) (aged 65) Rome, Italy
Academic background
Education	Trinity College Dublin
Academic work
Institutions	Trinity College Dublin (1885–1902) University of Cambridge (1902–1927)
Notable students	Steven Runciman, Norman Baynes

John Bagnell Bury FBA (UK: /ˈbʊərɪ/; 16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish^[1][2] historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin (1893–1902), before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge from 1902 until his death.