Hugh Trevor-Roper
English historian and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford
He was also a polemicist and essayist whose short works affected historical thinking, according to John Philipps Kenyon.[1]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
- Born
- 15 January 1914
- Birthplace
- Glanton, Northumberland, England
- Died
- 26 January 2003
- Place of death
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
- Education
- Christ Church, Oxford
- Occupation
- Historian
- Known for
- Studies in 17th-century European history, Nazi Germany
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Trevor-Roper was born at Glanton, Northumberland, to a doctor and descended from the Baron Teynham line.[2] During the Second World War, he served in the Intelligence Corps and decrypted Abwehr messages with E. W. B. Gill.[3][4] In 1945, he investigated Hitler's death for British intelligence, using the alias "Major Oughton"[5] He became Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1980, a move engineered by Maurice Cowling's faction.[6]
At his urging, women were admitted to Peterhouse in 1983.[6]
What the cited sources add
Ascherson reported that the Peterhouse clique assumed Trevor-Roper was a semi-Fascist ultra, but he turned out to be an anti-clerical Whig.[7][6] Ascherson wrote that Trevor-Roper often talked gleefully about his own "malice"[7] According to Ascherson, Trevor-Roper never completed the great work about early modern England that everyone expected.[7] Seven years after his death, Hugh Trevor-Roper's reputation is still a cauldron of discord, according to Ascherson.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Hugh Trevor-Roper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Quoted at Adam Sisman, Hugh Trevor-Roper (2010) p. 414 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hugh Trevor-Roper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography, Adam Sisman, Hachette, p. 1; One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper, ed. Richard Davenport-Hines, Adam Sisman, Oxford University Press. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hugh Trevor-Roper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: ; ; (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hugh Trevor-Roper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: P. R. J. Winter, "A Higher Form of Intelligence: Hugh Trevor-Roper and Wartime British Secret Service," Intelligence & National Security (Dec 2007), 22#6 pp 847 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hugh Trevor-Roper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: MI5 Security Service (2005) Hitler's last days; In The Bunker with Hitler – Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven with Francois d' Alancon – Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Orion Books – 2006; Benecke, "What Happens to Human Bodies When They Are Burned?", Forensic Science International, 2013-03-10, p. 33–37; Trevor-Roper, "The Last Days of Hitler", Pan Macmillan, 2002, p. 182 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Hugh Trevor-Roper" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ascherson, "The Liquidator", 19 August 2010; "Not so ropey", The Economist, 22 July 2010; Sisman, pp. 483, 487, 490, 493, 506, 558, 562 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Ascherson, "The Liquidator", 19 August 2010. facts only, no text reused. lrb.co.uk
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