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Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr (11 April 1919 – 19 April 2015) was an English historian specialising in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden. From 1968 to 1987, he was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford.
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. After his retirement from Oxford, he was King Juan Carlos Professor of Spanish History at New York University in 1992.
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'. St Antony's College record 2006, p. 21 online at sant.ox.ac.uk (accessed 11 January 2008)
As a historian and Hispanist, Carr's main interest lay in the vicissitudes of 19th and 20th century Spain, Raymond Carr at fundacionprincipedeasturias.org (accessed 11 January 2008) and he was also a specialist in Latin American and Swedish history. In the words of John Huxtable Elliott, "his book on Spain between 1808 and 1939 is basic to a better understanding of the era, and the later generation of historians, both within Spain and abroad, have followed up the leads that Carr gives in his book to great benefit."
His Modern Spain, 1875-1980 was called by the Times Literary Supplement "a turning point in Spanish historiography - nothing comparable in scope, profundity, or perceptiveness exists." Spain: A History by Raymond Carr at powells.com (accessed 11 January 2008)
At St Antony's, he established an Iberian Centre, of which he was co-director with Joaquin Romero Maura. Memories and Tributes in History Workshop Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 151-184 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."Paul Preston, Introduction to Revolution and War in Spain, 1931-1939, Methuen, 1984, p. 6 Carr also wrote an extensive foreword to the 1993 edition of The Spanish Labyrinth by Gerald Brenan. Cambridge University Press frontmatter
A Fellow of the British Academy since 1978, in 1983 he was awarded the Order of Alfonso X el Sabio by King Juan Carlos of Spain and in 1999 the Prince of Asturias Award for Social sciences.
He is considered, together with Angus Mackay and Sir John Huxtable Elliott, a major figure in developing Spanish historiography. Delanty, Gerard Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory. Routledge, 2006 at Google Books
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." The Changing Face of Clio at spectator.co.uk (accessed 11 January 2008)
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).
Carr died on 19 April 2015 at the age of 96. "Hispanist Raymond Carr dies at 96." Fox News. Retrieved 21 April 2015. "Muere el historiador británico Raymond Carr." El País. Retrieved 21 April 2015. Sir Raymond Carr. St Antony's College. Retrieved 21 April "015.
Carr has also written many book reviews for journals, including the New York Review of Books Raymond Carr at nybooks.com (accessed 11 January 2008) and The Spectator. Raymond Carr at spectator.co.uk (accessed 11 January 2008)
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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. 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). 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. Laura Carr married Richard E. Barrowclough in 1978 and has four children, Milo Edmond, Conrad Oliver, Theodore Charles, and Sibell Augusta. Descendants of William the Conqueror at genealogy.rootsweb.com (accessed 12 January 2008)
Honours
Clubs
Beefsteak Club and Oxford and Cambridge; sometime
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Categories: 1919 Births, Academics Of King's College London, Alumni Of Christ Church, Oxford, English Knights, Fellows Of All Souls College, Oxford, Fellows Of New College, Oxford, Fellows Of The British Academy, Fox Hunters, Fox Hunting Writers, Historians Of Latin America, Historians Of Spain, Knights Bachelor, 2015 Deaths, British Hispanists, New York University Faculty, Wardens Of St Antony's College, Oxford, Fellows Of The Royal Society Of Literature, Fellows Of The Royal Historical Society, English Male Non-fiction Writers, 20th-century English Historians, People From Bath, Somerset, Historians Of The Second Spanish Republic, Historians Of The University Of Oxford
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