Reginald Coupland

Sir Reginald Coupland (2 August 1884 – 6 November 1952) was an English historian of the British Empire. Between 1920 and 1948, he held the Beit Professorship of Colonial History at the University of Oxford.

Coupland is known for his scholarship on African history, as a member of the 1923–1924 Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India, and as an influential member of the 1936–1937 Peel Commission, a royal commission on Mandatory Palestine. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1948. Provided by Wikipedia