A. G. (Andrew George) Little

Andrew George Little was an English historian born in 1863 and best known for his research on the Franciscans, especially the Greyfriars in medieval England. He taught history at University College of South Wales, Cardiff, and later worked in Manchester, building a reputation as a leading scholar of medieval religious history.

Much of his writing centered on Franciscan institutions, records, and personalities, and he is especially associated with The Grey Friars in Oxford. His work helped establish the study of the Franciscans in England on a firmer documentary basis, and he was later elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

For readers today, he stands out as a patient, archival kind of historian: someone interested not just in big events, but in the lives, communities, and documents that reveal how medieval religious orders actually worked.