Raymond Carr
Sir Raymond Carr | |
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Born | Brockenhurst School | 11 April 1919
Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
Occupation | Historian |
Spouse | Sara Ann Mary Strickland |
Children | 4 |
Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr
Early life
Carr was born on 11 April 1919 in
Career
Carr was briefly a lecturer at
He became a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1964, Sub-Warden of the college in 1966 and Warden in 1968, a position he held until his retirement in 1987.[4] After his retirement from Oxford, he was King Juan Carlos Professor of Spanish History at New York University in 1992.[4]
Carr's successor as Warden of St Antony's, Ralf Dahrendorf, has described Carr's tenure of the post as the college's 'Fiesta days'.[5]
As a historian and
His Modern Spain, 1875-1980 was called by the
At St Antony's, he established an Iberian Centre, of which he was co-director with Joaquin Romero Maura.[9] Paul Preston wrote in 1984 of their collaboration "Between them, Carr and Romero Maura instilled an intellectual rigour into modern Spanish historiography which had previously been conspicuously lacking."[10] Carr also wrote an extensive foreword to the 1993 edition of The Spanish Labyrinth by Gerald Brenan.[11]
A Fellow of the
He is considered, together with
Carr wrote for The Spectator in 2007 - "I am old-fashioned and aged enough to believe that the best history is the work of the lone individual."[13]
His recreation was fox hunting, about which he has written two books, English Fox Hunting: A History (1976), a comprehensive history of fox-hunting from medieval times, and, with his wife Sara Carr, Fox-Hunting (1982).[4][2]
Other appointments
- Member of the National Theatre Board, 1968–1977[4]
- Chairman of the Society for Latin American Studies, 1966–1968[4][6]
- Corresponding Member of the Spain's Royal Academy of History (Real Academia de la Historia), Madrid[4][7]
Personal life and death
In 1950, Carr married Sara Ann Mary Strickland, daughter of Algernon Walter Strickland and of Lady Mary Pamela Madeline Sibell Charteris. Sara Strickland's maternal grandfather was Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, and one of her great-grandfathers was Percy Wyndham (1835–1911), a Conservative politician who was one of The Souls.[3] The Carrs have three sons and one daughter, Adam Henry Maillard Carr (born 1951), Matthew Xavier Maillard Carr (1953-2011), Laura Selina Madeline Carr (born 1954), and Alexander Rallion Charles Carr (born 1958).[3] Their son Adam married Angela P. Barry in 1988, and their daughter Rose Angelica Mary Carr was born in 1991. Matthew, a portrait artist, married Lady Anne Mary Somerset in 1988, and their daughter Eleanor Carr was born in 1992.[3] Laura Carr married Richard E. Barrowclough in 1978 and has four children, Milo Edmond, Conrad Oliver, Theodore Charles, and Sibell Augusta.[14]
Carr died on 19 April 2015 at the age of 96.[15][16][17][18]
Honours
- Member of the British Academy, 1972[7]
- Fellow of the British Academy, 1978[4]
- Distinguished Professor, Boston University, 1980[4]
- Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford, 1986[4]
- Knight Bachelor, 1987 New Year Honours[19][20]
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society[4]
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature[4]
- Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, 1988[4]
- Honorary D Litt, Complutense University of Madrid, 1999[4]
- Award of Merit, Society for Spanish Historical Studies of the US, 1987[4]
- Leimer Award for Spanish Studies, University of Augsburg, 1990[4]
- Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X el Sabio (Spain), 1983[4][6]
- Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal), 1989[4]
- Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004[21]
Clubs
Beefsteak and Oxford and Cambridge;[4] sometime Senior Member of the Bullingdon.[citation needed]
Selected works
- Two Swedish Financiers: Louis De Geer and Joel Gripenstierna, in H. E. Bell and R. L. Ollard, eds., Historical Essays Presented to David Ogg, London: Black, 1963
- Spain 1808–1939, Oxford University Press, 1966
- Latin American Affairs (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1970 (St Antony's Papers, no. 22)
- The Republic and the Civil War in Spain (ed.), 1971
- English Fox Hunting: A History, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976, 2nd edition 1986, ISBN 978-0-297-77074-9
- The Spanish Tragedy: the Civil War in Perspective, 1977
- Spain: Dictatorship to Democracy (with Juan Pablo Fusi), 1979
- Modern Spain: 1875-1980, 1980
- Spain 1808-1975, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982
- Fox-Hunting (with Sara Carr), Oxford University Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-19-214140-8
- Puerto Rico: a colonial experiment, 1984
- The Spanish Civil War: A History in Pictures (ed.), New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 1986
- The Chances of Death: a diary of the Spanish Civil War by Priscilla Scott-Ellis (ed. by Carr), 1995[22]
- Visiones de fin de siglo, 1999
- Spain: A History (ed.), 2000
- El rostro cambiante de Clío (collection of pieces translated into Spanish by Eva Rodríguez Halffter), Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2005 ISBN 84-9742-403-4
Carr has also written many book reviews for journals, including the
References
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 1, pg 703
- ^ a b Carr, Sir Albert Raymond Maillard in International Who's Who of Authors and Writers online (19th edition, Europa Publications, London and New York, 2004) p. 93
- ^ a b c d Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr at thepeerage.com (accessed 11 January 2008)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w CARR, Sir (Albert) Raymond (Maillard)[dead link] at Who's Who online (accessed 11 January 2008)
- ^ St Antony's College record 2006, p. 21 Archived 12 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine online at sant.ox.ac.uk (accessed 11 January 2008)
- ^ a b c d e f Raymond Carr Archived 29 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine at fundacionprincipedeasturias.org (accessed 11 January 2008)
- ^ a b c Mediterranean Studies 3 (1992): About the Contributors at mediterraneanstudies.org (accessed 11 January 2008)
- ^ Spain: A History by Raymond Carr at powells.com (accessed 11 January 2008)
- ^ Memories and Tributes in History Workshop Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 151-184
- ^ Preston, Paul, Introduction to Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939, Methuen, 1984, p. 6
- ^ Cambridge University Press frontmatter
- ISBN 978-0-415-35518-6at Google Books
- ^ The Changing Face of Clio[permanent dead link] at spectator.co.uk (accessed 11 January 2008)
- ^ Descendants of William the Conqueror at genealogy.rootsweb.com (accessed 12 January 2008)
- ^ "Hispanist Raymond Carr dies at 96." Archived 18 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine Fox News. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ "Muere el historiador británico Raymond Carr." El País. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- St Antony's College. Retrieved 21 April "015.
- S2CID 164653699.
- ^ "No. 50764". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1986. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 50873". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 March 1987. p. 4181.
- ^ St Antony's College Newsletter 2004 Archived 9 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine online at sant.ox.ac.uk (accessed 11 January 2008)
- ISBN 978-0-85955-208-0.
- ^ Raymond Carr at nybooks.com (accessed 11 January 2008)
- ^ Raymond Carr at spectator.co.uk (accessed 11 January 2008)