(Kenneth) Bruce McFarlane (1903–1966), historian, was born on 18 October 1903 at 191 Amesbury Avenue, Streatham, the only child of Andrew McFarlane OBE, a civil servant in the Admiralty.
A medieval historian, McFarlane opened up the study of 15th–century England through his use both of new types of sources and by moving beyond the conventional constitutional narrative to a more complex analytical approach.
He was the playwright, Alan Bennett's Don at Oxford.
