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Hugh Trevor-Roper

1914 - 2003

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Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of historical topics, but particularly England in the 16th and 17th centuries and Nazi Germany. According to John Philipps Kenyon, "some of [Trevor-Roper's] short essays have affected the way we think about the past more than other men's books". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugh Trevor-Roper is the 371st most popular historian (up from 392nd in 2019), the 3,411th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,326th in 2019) and the 36th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Hugh Trevor-Roper ranks 371 out of 561. Before him are Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Franz Babinger, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Taner Akçam, Khalifah ibn Khayyat, and Benny Morris. After him are John Keegan, Jacob Talmon, Leo Allatius, Heinrich Zimmer, Géza Alföldy, and Gottfried Arnold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Hugh Trevor-Roper ranks 256. Before him are Annemarie Selinko, Wolfgang Windgassen, Emmanuel Roblès, Carl Scarborough, Gisèle Casadesus, and Jijé. After him are Sueo Ōe, Elfriede Kaun, Hermínio de Brito, Julián Marías, Orhan Kemal, and Yrjö Nikkanen. Among people deceased in 2003, Hugh Trevor-Roper ranks 216. Before him are Vladimír Vašíček, Tomáš Pospíchal, Lewis A. Coser, Hal Clement, Roy Jenkins, and Joel Antônio Martins. After him are Tranquilo Cappozzo, Horace W. Babcock, Garrett Hardin, German Apukhtin, Emília Rotter, and Alfredo Hernández.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Trevor-Roper ranks 3,412 out of 8,785. Before him are Duncan Grant (1885), Geoff Bent (1932), Alan Young (1919), Israel Regardie (1907), Ronald Pickup (1940), and Constance Collier (1878). After him are Thérèse Coffey (1971), John Keegan (1934), Peter Walker (1912), John Steiner (1941), John Arbuthnot (1667), and Vanessa Kirby (1988).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Hugh Trevor-Roper ranks 36. Before him are Gerald of Wales (1146), Paul Kennedy (1945), Christopher Hill (1912), A. J. P. Taylor (1906), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), and Edward Granville Browne (1862). After him are John Keegan (1934), George Finlay (1799), Francis Godwin (1562), Catharine Macaulay (1731), Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), and G. M. Trevelyan (1876).

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