Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
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Born | Thomas Lionel Hodgkin 3 April 1910 Headington, Oxford, England |
Died | March 25, 1982 Greece | (aged 71)
Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
Occupation | Historian |
Years active | 1945–1982 |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Parent |
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Relatives | Hodgkin family |
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (3 April 1910 – 25 March 1982) was an English
Early life and education
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was born at Mendip House,
Hodgkin was an exhibitioner at Winchester and from 1928 to 1932 a classics scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he also held a Higgs Memorial scholarship in English.[3] He obtained a Second in Classical Moderations in 1930 and a First in Literae Humaniores or "Greats" (philosophy and ancient history) in 1932.[4]
Palestine and the WEA
A senior
Returning to London, where he stayed with his father's cousin, Margery Fry, and joined the Communist Party, Hodgkin briefly tried training as a schoolteacher, before entering adult education.[2] He met and married Dorothy Crowfoot in 1937, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.[1]
In 1939, declared ineligible for military service on medical grounds (he suffered from narcolepsy), Hodgkin became a Workers' Educational Association tutor in north Staffordshire. In September 1945 he became Secretary of the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies, and a Balliol fellow.[5]
Travels in Africa
He first visited the Gold Coast in 1947, and became interested in African history as well as the contemporary problems of African nationalism. Befriending Kwame Nkrumah in 1951, he published a pamphlet for the Union of Democratic Control supporting independence for the Gold Coast.[2]
In 1952 Hodgkin left his Oxford job and travelled in Africa. After publishing Nationalism in Colonial Africa (1956), he became interested in Africa's Islamic history.
Northwestern, McGill, Legon and Balliol
He took part-time appointments at
From 1965 until his 1970 retirement he was Lecturer in the Government of New States at Oxford University.[5] He died in Greece on 25 March 1982.[1]
Works
- "Hating Italy", Red Rags : Essays of Hate from Oxford, ed. R. C. Carr, London: Chapman & Hall, 1933, 161–176
- Nationalism in Colonial Africa (Frederick Muller, 1956. 2nd edn, 1957. E-Book 2008)
- (ed.) Nigerian Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 1960. 2nd edn, 1975)
- African Political Parties (Penguin Books, 1961)
- Vietnam: the Revolutionary Path (Macmillan, 1981)
References
- ^ a b c d e "Mr Thomas Hodgkin". Obituary. The Times. No. 61, 192. London. 26 March 1982. p. 10.
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008; accessed 15 January 2010.
- ^ Who's Who 1974, London : A. & C. Black, 1974, 1559–60; Red Rags, ed. R. C. Carr, London: Chapman & Hall, 1933, 160.
- ^ Oxford University Calendar 1932, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1932, 318; Oxford University Calendar 1935, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935, 207.
- ^ a b "HODGKIN, Thomas Lionel", Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007; accessed 15 January 2010.
Sources
- C. Allen and R. W. Johnson, eds., African Perspectives: papers in the history, politics and economics of Africa presented to Thomas Hodgkin (Cambridge University Press, 1970)
- Michael Wolfers, Thomas Hodgkin: Wandering Scholar - A Biography (Merlin Press, 2007)
- E. C. Hodgkin (ed.), Thomas Hodgkin. Letters from Palestine, 1932-36 (Quartet Books, 1986)
- Michael Wolfers & Elizabeth Hodgkin (eds), Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947-56 (HAAN Publishing, 2000)