Henry Woudhuysen

{{Short description|British academic}}

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| name = Henry Woudhuysen

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| birth_name = Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1954|10|24}}

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| nationality = British

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| occupation = Historian and academic

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| education = St Paul's School, London

| alma_mater = University of Oxford

| thesis_title = Leicester's literary patronage: A study of the English court, 1578-1582

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| thesis_year = 1981

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| doctoral_advisor = Katherine Duncan-Jones

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| discipline = {{hlist|English studies|History}}

| sub_discipline = {{hlist|History of the book|English Renaissance theatre|Political history|Literary history|Palaeography}}

| workplaces = Lincoln College, Oxford
University College London

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| notable_works = The Oxford Companion to the Book
The Arden Shakespeare

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Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA|FBA|size=100%|sep=,}} (born 24 October 1954), is a British academic specialising in Renaissance English literature.{{cite web|title=WOUDHUYSEN, Prof. Henry Ruxton|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U254020|website=Who's Who 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=25 November 2016|date=November 2015}} He was the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford from 2012 to 2024.{{cite web|title=New Rector of Lincoln College appointed |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120718.html |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=25 April 2014 |date=18 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426214652/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120718.html |archive-date=26 April 2014 }}{{cite web|title=Professor Henry Woudhuysen|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-henry-woudhuysen|website=britac.ac.uk|publisher=The British Academy|access-date=25 November 2016|date=2016}}{{Cite web |title=A Farewell Message from our 39th Rector, Professor Henry Woudhuysen |website=Lincoln College |publisher=University of Oxford |url=https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/a-farewell-message-from-our-39th-rector-professor-henry-woudhuysen |access-date=2024-10-12 }} He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at University College London.{{cite news|last=Stokes|first=Matt|title=New Lincoln rector|url=http://oxfordstudent.com/2012/05/31/new-lincoln-rector/|access-date=25 April 2014|newspaper=Oxford Student|date=31 May 2012}}