Charles Derek Ross (1924 – 1986) was an English historian of the
Late Middle Ages. He was educated at
Wakefield Grammar School and
Brasenose College, Oxford,[1] where he completed a doctoral thesis on the baronage in Yorkshire in the early fifteenth century[2] under the supervision of
K.B. McFarlane.[3] He published predominantly on the history of the later medieval English nobility, royalty, and the
Wars of the Roses. Originally teaching alongside Margaret Sharp (daughter of
T.F. Tout), he became reader and then Professor of Medieval History at the
University of Bristol. His pupils included
Michael Hicks,[4] Anne Crawford[5] and Ralph Griffiths.[6] He remained at Bristol until his death in 1986, when he was killed by an intruder in his own home.[7]