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Professor Philip Payton
BSc (Bristol), PhD (Adelaide), PhD (Plymouth) FRHistS, FRSA
Philip Payton obtained his first degree from
the University of Bristol in 1975 and returned to Australia (where he had
lived as a child) to read for a doctorate at the University of Adelaide,
choosing as his theme the Cornish in Australia. In 1979 he joined the
Royal Navy as an officer in the education specialisation, culminating in
his appointment in 1989 as Senior Lecturer in the Department of History
and International Affairs at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
In 1990 he gained a second doctorate, from the University of Plymouth, for a study
of modern Cornwall from a centre-periphery perspective. He joined the
University of Exeter as Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, then
situated at Pool, near Redruth, in 1991. He was promoted Reader in 1995
and Professor in 2000. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society
and the Royal Society of Arts.
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