Anthony Bryer Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Bryer was awarded an OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to scholarship.

Bryer was educated at Canford School, and after completing his National Service he studied history at Balliol College, Oxford. He initially remained at Balliol for his doctorate on the Empire of Trebizond, which he completed in 1967, but in 1964 he moved to the University of Birmingham where he created a programme in Byzantine studies. In 1975 he founded the journal Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. From 1976, he was the founding Director of the Centre for Byzantine Studies, and in 1980 he was appointed Professor of Byzantine Studies, a post which he held until 1999. In a distinguished career he has held fellowships at Athens University, Dumbarton Oaks and Merton College, Oxford.

In July 1961 he married Elizabeth Liscomb, who died in 1995.  In 1998 he married Jennifer A. Banks.

Anthony Applemore Mornington Bryer (31 October 1937 – 22 October 2016) OBE FSA FRHistS was a British historian of the Byzantine Empire and founder of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Anthony Bryer was born on 31 October 1937 in Southsea, Portsmouth. He was the son of Group Captain Gerald Bryer and Joan Bryer (née Rigsby).  Part of his childhood was spent in Jerusalem and he was acquainted with Sir Steven Runciman, historian and Byzantine Scholar.