Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: england - relatives: lewis elton ben elton - birth name: gottfried rudolf ehrenberg - death date: 3 december 1994 - spouse: sheila lambert - birth date: 17 august 1921 - name: geoffrey elton - parents: victor ehrenberg eva dorothea sommer - birth place: tubingen , germany - alma mater: university college london - occupation: historian , writer Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of geoffrey elton .
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sir geoffrey rudolph elton -lrb- 17 august 1921 -- 3 december 1994 -rrb- was a german-born british political and constitutional historian , specialising in the tudor period .he taught at clare college , cambridge and was the regius professor of modern history there from 1983 to 1988 .