Peter Searby, who has died aged 93, began his working life as a school teacher and later became a lecturer in history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Fitzwilliam College.
There he embarked on the 10-year effort that resulted in the publication in 1997 of A History of the University of Cambridge, Vol. III, 1750-1870, a magisterial account of the university’s development during a period of unprecedented change.
