Roland Quinault is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. He received his MA and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he was a scholar at Magdalen College and a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College. He has been Honorary Secretary of the Royal Historical Society and Reader in History at London Metropolitan University. In 2010-11 he is the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor in British History at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. He has written numerous studies of British political leaders from the Victorian era to the present