Geoffrey Scammell

Geoffrey Scammell was born on 11 July 1925^[1] in Wallasey, Merseyside, England.^[2] Attended Wallasey Grammar School. He graduated from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, BA in 1948 (MA 1953). After service at sea and a position at Durham, he became a Fellow of Pembroke College 12 years later, where he remained as a lecturer and scholar until his retirement in 1992.

Scammell served in the Royal Navy as a lieutenant from 1943 to 1946. His academic career began after his war service, first as a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and then at the University of Durham as Lecturer in Diplomatic. In 1965 he became a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was director of studies in history at Cambridge from 1965 to 1992 and emeritus fellow at Pembroke College from 1992.^[3]

He wrote primarily about the maritime history of the Tudor and Stuart period^[4] and was chairman of the British committee of the International Maritime History Committee from 1978 to 1989.

Scammell died in Cambridge in 2006.^[1]

• Hugh Du Puiset: A Biography of the Twelfth-Century Bishop of Durham. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1956.
• The World Encompassed: The First European Maritime Empires c.800-1650. First published in 1981 by Methuen and Co Ltd and University of California Press, Berkeley, second edition published in 2018 by Routledge, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon and by Routledge, 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017.^[5]
• The English Chartered Trading Companies and the Sea. National Maritime Museum, London, 1983.
• The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion, c.1400-1715. Unwin Hyman, London, 1989.
• Ships, Oceans and Empire: Studies in European Maritime and Colonial History, 1400-1750. Variorum, Aldershot, 1995. ISBN 0860784754
• Seafaring, Sailors and Trade, 1450-1750: Studies in British and European Maritime and Imperial History. Ashgate Variorum, Aldershot, 2003.^[6] ISBN 0860788970