Percival Spear
Thomas George Percival Spear
Personal life and education
Born in Bath in 1901, Percival Spear attended Monkton Combe School and later St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he studied History. He spent some of his time there rowing in the Cambridge rowing team. He thereafter went to India and taught European and English history at St. Stephen's College, Delhi from 1924 to 1940.[1]
In 1943 Spear became a deputy secretary to the government of India in the department of information and broadcasting.[1] He also served for a time in 1944 as a government whip in the Federal Assembly, the precursor to independent India's Parliament.
After the war, Spear returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow and Bursar of Selwyn College and later a university lecturer in South Asian History. He spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley on a visiting professorship.[1]
Percival Spear was awarded the Order of Merit (OBE) in the 1946 New Year Honours.
Writings
In his book Master of Bengal:
Selected bibliography
- A History of India Volume 2, 1956, ISBN 0140207708
- The Nabobs, 1932
- India, Pakistan and the West
- The Twilight of the Mughals
- India, a Modern History
References
- ^ OCLC 7222798.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 9 Sept 2008
- Percival Spear, Master of Bengal : Clive and his India (London, Thames and Hudson, 1975, p 145)
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