| David McIntyre | |
| Birth Name: | William David McIntyre |
| Birth Date: | 4 September 1932 |
| Birth Place: | Hucknall, England |
| Death Place: | Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
| Alma Mater: | University of London |
| Thesis Title: | British policy in west Africa, the Malay peninsula and the south Pacific during the secretaryships of Lord Kimberley and Lord Carnarvon 1870–1876 |
| Thesis Url: | https://library.soas.ac.uk/Record/10000832 |
| Thesis Year: | 1959 |
| Discipline: | History |
| Workplaces: | University of Nottingham University of Canterbury |
| Main Interests: | British Empire / Commonwealth constitutional and military history |
William David McIntyre (4 September 1932 – 11 September 2022) was a British-born New Zealand historian, known for his expertise on the military and constitutional histories of the Commonwealth of Nations and British Empire.
Born in England on 4 September 1932, McIntyre was the son of Rev. J. McIntyre,[1] a congregationalist minister. He was educated at Caterham School and went on to study at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Washington University, earning a Master of Arts degree, and the School of Oriental & African Studies at the University of London, where he completed a PhD.[1] His 1959 doctoral thesis was titled British policy in west Africa, the Malay peninsula and the south Pacific during the secretaryships of Lord Kimberley and Lord Carnarvon 1870–1876.
In 1957, McIntyre married Marion Jean Hillyard, an American he met while at Washington University, and they went on to have five children.[1]
McIntyre was a teaching fellow at Washington University from 1955 to 1956. After completing his PhD, in 1959 he became an assistant lecturer, and later lecturer, in Commonwealth and American history at the University of Nottingham.[1] [2] In 1966, he was appointed a professor in history at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand,[1] where he remained for the rest of his career. He retired in 1997, and was awarded the title of professor emeritus.[3] [4] He continued to write and research. An expert on the constitutional and military histories of the Commonwealth of Nations and British Empire, McIntyre published and advised governments. He served as consultant to the Committee on Commonwealth Membership, and compiled its report which was accepted by Heads of Government at Kampala in 2007.[5]
In the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours, McIntyre was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to historical research.
McIntyre married his second wife in 1993. He died in Lower Hutt on 11 September 2022, aged 90 years [6]