R. L. Storey
Robin Lyndsey Storey (1927 – 4 July 2005), usually cited as R. L. Storey, was an English historian specialising in late medieval English political and church history. Early years. Robin Storey was born in 1927 in Northumberland and educated at Whitley Bay Grammar School. He did National Service at the close of World War II in the RAF, which took him to the Netherlands. He studied Modern History at New College, Oxford and from 1948, moved to the University of Durham to carry out doctoral research into the career of Thomas Langley, Bishop of Durham as both 'statesman  and bishop,' which was submitted in January 1954. At Durham he was a member of St Cuthbert's Society. Career. In 1953 Storey joined the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, London, as an assistant Keeper where he met his future wife. His employment provided him with the opportunity for research that would later form the basis of his studies of the Wardens of the Scottish Marches and the last years of the House of Lancaster, partly at least on the suggestion of his colleagues. This research was eventually published in 1966 as "The End of The House of Lancaster