Hugh Brogan
Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan (20 March 1936 – 26 July 2019)[1] known as Hugh Brogan, was a British historian and biographer.
Early life
[edit]The son of Sir Denis Brogan and Olwen Phillis Francis (Lady Brogan), OBE, archaeologist and authority on Roman Libya, he was educated at St Faith's School,[2] Cambridge, Repton School, and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1959 and MA in 1964.[3] From his schooldays, he was a frequent correspondent of J.R.R. Tolkien regarding the latter's works. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien published in 1981 includes five addressed to Brogan; these are dated 7 April 1948, Christmas 1948, 18 September 1954, 11 September 1955, and 14 December 1955. A draft of an unsent letter addressed to Brogan is also included.[4]
Career
[edit]Brogan was on the staff of The Economist from 1960 to 1963, and was elected a Harkness Fellow in 1962, then was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, from 1963 to 1974.[3] He was then part of the department of history at the University of Essex from 1974 to 1998, first as a lecturer, then a reader, and finally as Professor of History from 1992 to 1998.[3]
Major publications
[edit]- Tocqueville (1973)
- The Times Reports The American Civil War (1975)
- The Life of Arthur Ransome (1984)
- The Longman History of the United States of America (1985); reprinted as The Penguin History of the United States of America (1990)
- Mowgli's Sons: Kipling and Baden-Powell's Scouts (1987)
- Correspondance et Conversations d'Alexis de Tocqueville et Nassau William Senior, (1991, with Anne P. Kerr)
- American Presidential Families [with Charles Mosley] (1993)
- Kennedy (1996)
- Signalling from Mars: The Letters of Arthur Ransome (1997, ed.)
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution (UK: Profile, 2006); Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life (USA: Yale University Press, 2007)
References
[edit]- ^ "Obituary: Hugh Brogan | University of Essex".
- ^ "Hugh Brogan - St Faith's School Website". St Faith's School Website. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- ^ a b c BROGAN, Prof. (Denis) Hugh (Vercingetorix) Archived 2013-02-10 at archive.today in Who's Who 2007 online (accessed 22 October 2007)
- ^ Carpenter, Humphrey, ed. (2023) [1981]. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-35-865298-4.
External links
[edit]- "Hugh Brogan obituary". Nancy Blackett Trust. 2019.
- Brogan's staff page at the University of Essex
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