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Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was born on 3 April, 1910 in Headington, Oxford, England, is an English historian. Discover Thomas Lionel Hodgkin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Occupation Historian
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 3 April 1910
Birthday 3 April
Birthplace Headington, Oxford, England
Date of death 1982
Died Place Greece
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1910

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (3 April 1910 – 25 March 1982) was an English Marxist historian of Africa, who was described by The Times at his death of having done "more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history" in the UK.

He was married to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin.

Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was born at Mendip House, Headington Hill, near Oxford.

Named after his grandfather, the historian Thomas Hodgkin, he was the son of Robert Howard Hodgkin, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, and Dorothy Forster Smith, daughter of the historian Alfred Lionel Smith.

1928

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.

1930

He obtained a Second in Classical Moderations in 1930 and a First in Literae Humaniores or "Greats" (philosophy and ancient history) in 1932.

1932

A senior demyship at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1932–33, enabled him to travel; he spent the years on John Garstang's archaeological dig at Jericho.

1934

From 1934 to 1936 Hodgkin was in the Palestine civil service, for some time being a personal secretary to High Commissioner Wauchope.

There, Hodgkin started to become critical of British imperialism.

1936

Resigning from the colonial service after the April 1936 Arab uprising, he hoped to stay in Palestine but was ordered to leave by the British administration.

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.

1937

He met and married Dorothy Crowfoot in 1937, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

1939

In 1939, declared ineligible for military service on medical grounds (he suffered from narcolepsy), Hodgkin became a Workers' Educational Association tutor in north Staffordshire.

1945

In September 1945 he became Secretary of the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies, and a Balliol fellow.

1947

He first visited the Gold Coast in 1947, and became interested in African history as well as the contemporary problems of African nationalism.

1951

Befriending Kwame Nkrumah in 1951, he published a pamphlet for the Union of Democratic Control supporting independence for the Gold Coast.

1952

In 1952 Hodgkin left his Oxford job and travelled in Africa.

1956

After publishing Nationalism in Colonial Africa (1956), he became interested in Africa's Islamic history.

1962

He took part-time appointments at Northwestern University (Illinois) and McGill University (Montreal), was joint secretary of a commission on reform of Ghana's universities, and in 1962 returned to Ghana for three years to head the new Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana.

1965

From 1965 until his 1970 retirement he was Lecturer in the Government of New States at Oxford University.

1982

He died in Greece on 25 March 1982.