Professor Gordon Edmund Mingay, 1923-2006, was a British agrarian historian and lecturer. Mingay served to lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1947. Lecturer London School of Economics, 1957-1965. Reader University Kent, Canterbury, 1965-1968, Professor agrarian history, 1968-1986, Emeritus professor agrarian history, from 1987. He was a member of the British Agricultural History Society (and it's president from 1986).