Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre of Glanton (15 January 1914 – 26 Janurary 2003) was a prominent British historian. [1]
During World War Two, Trevor-Roper served in the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), where he was a colleague of Kim Philby. At the end of the war, he carried out an SIS investigation into the fate of Hitler, which provided the material for his 1947 book, The Last Days of Hitler.
Trevor-Roper attended the 1950 Berlin Congress for Cultural Freedom, as a member of the British delegation, which was funded by the Foreign Office, though the Information Research Department.[2] He was highly critical of the tone of the conference, and attacked the domination of proceedings by 'rootless European ex-Communists'. [3] He was a director of Times Newspapers Ltd from 1974 to 1988 [4] and from 1978 was a member of the secretive political dining society the Other Club. [5]
Affiliations
Other Club, member
Garrick Club, member
Notes
- ↑ Paul Lewis, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Hitler Historian, Dies at 89, New York Times, 26 January 2003.
- ↑ Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper, Granta Books, 2000, p.76.
- ↑ Hugh Wilford, Calling the Tune? The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War, Frank Cass, 2003, p.195.
- ↑ ‘DACRE OF GLANTON’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [Accessed 4 Jan 2010]
- ↑ John Lloyd, 'Secret members of the Other Club', The Times, 29 July 1997; p.13
