A. G. (Andrew George) Little

Born in 1863 and dying in 1945, Andrew George Little was an English historian best known for his work on the Franciscans, or Greyfriars, in medieval England. Reliable sources available here describe him as a specialist in medieval religious history and note that he became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1922.

His teaching career included early work at University College of South Wales, Cardiff, where he served as lecturer and later professor of history around the turn of the twentieth century. He later taught in Manchester and Oxford, building a reputation as an influential scholar of medieval church history.

Little is especially remembered for helping establish Franciscan studies as a serious field of research in Britain. The sources found here also connect him with the beginnings of what became the British Society of Franciscan Studies, reflecting the lasting impact of his scholarship.