Biographies of historians

Famous islanders:
Historians

Jean Chevalier

Follow these links to biographies of some of Jersey's most
important historians over the past 600 years

• Philip Ahier, historian
• George Reginald Balleine, historian
• Jean Chevalier, English Civil War diarist
• Edouard Dauvergne, historian and clergyman
• Francis de Gruchy, soldier and historian
• Guy Fortescue Burrell de Gruchy, historian; author of Medieval Land Tenures in Jersey
• Jean de la Croix, journalist and historian
• Philippe Falle, historian and founder of Jersey Public Library
• Humphrey Godfray, lawyer and historian
• Frank Le Maistre, linguist and historian
• Edouard Le Vavasseur dit Durell, historian and controversial Rector
• J A Messervy, genealogist and historian
• Philip Morant, clergyman and antiquarian
• Edmund Toulmin Nicolle, historian and Société Jersiaise stalwart
• J Bertrand Payne, genealogist and historian
• Jean Poingdestre, Lieut-Bailiff and historian
• Norman Rybot, soldier and historian
• Arthur Charles Saunders
• Joan Stevens