Bainton, Roland (1894-1984)

Congregational minister and Reformation scholar, born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, C England, UK. Taken to Canada by his father in 1898, he was educated at Whitman College and Yale University. He taught Church history at Yale Divinity School (1920--62), and became a leading scholar of the Protestant Reformation in America. His biography on Servetus is one of the major modern works on Servetus in English.

Works on Servetus:

1953 Bainton, Roland H., Hunted Heretic. The Life and Death of Michael Servetus 1511-1553. (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1953, 1960).