Robert Howard Hodgkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Howard Hodgkin

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1877

Place of Birth: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 28-Jun-1951

Profession: historian, university teacher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Robert Howard "Robin" Hodgkin (24 April 1877 – 28 June 1951) was an English historian of modern history at Queen's College at the University of Oxford, who served as its provost from 1937 until 1946.
In 1900, he was named a Lecturer of modern history at the college, and from 1928 to 1934 was a University Lecturer in that subject.
His seminal work, A History of the Anglo-Saxons, was published in 1935, and in his retirement he published Six Centuries of an Oxford College: A History of the Queen's College, 1340–1940. Hodgkin was part of a line of historians; his father, Thomas Hodgkin, was a recognized historian of Europe in the Middle Ages in addition to a banker, while his son, Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, was a Marxist historian of Africa.
Robert Hodgkin was also part of a so-called "Quaker dynasty", with many notable and accomplished relatives.
He was forced to leave the Quakers over his military service in the Second Boer War, when he volunteered to serve in the Northumberland Fusiliers.