Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan (20 March 1936 – 26 July 2019)
Early life
The son of
Denis Brogan and
Olwen Brogan (Lady Brogan), OBE, archaeologist and authority on
Roman Libya, he was educated at St Faith's School,
,
Repton School, and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1959 and MA in 1964.
[ BROGAN, Prof. (Denis) Hugh (Vercingetorix) in Who's Who 2007 online (accessed 22 October 2007)] 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.
Career
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.
[ 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.][
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Major publications
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Tocqueville (1973)
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The Times Reports The American Civil War (1975)
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The Life of Arthur Ransome (1984)
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The Longman History of the United States of America (1985); reprinted as The Penguin History of the United States of America (1990)
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Mowgli's Sons: Kipling and Baden-Powell's Scouts (1987)
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Correspondance et Conversations d'Alexis de Tocqueville et Nassau William Senior, (1991, with Anne P. Kerr)
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American Presidential Families with (1993)
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Kennedy (1996)
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Signalling from Mars: The Letters of Arthur Ransome (1997, ed.)
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution (UK: Profile, 2006); Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life (USA: Yale University Press, 2007)
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