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Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton was born on 21 October, 1931 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, is a British historian (1931–2017). Discover Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton'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 85 years old?

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Born 21 October, 1931
Birthday 21 October
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Date of death 7 May, 2017
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1931

Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (21 October 1931 – 7 May 2017) was an English historian and writer, best known for his book The Spanish Civil War.

Thomas was born on 21 October 1931 in Windsor, England, to Hugh Whitelegge Thomas, a colonial commissioner, and his wife Margery Augusta Angelo, née Swynnerton.

Sir Shenton Thomas was his uncle.

He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, before going up to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was a major scholar and later an Honorary Fellow.

1952

Thomas gained a first class in Part I of the History Tripos in 1952, and the following year was president of the Cambridge Union Society.

He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.

1954

From 1954 to 1957, Thomas worked in the Foreign Office partly as secretary of the British Delegation to the sub-committee of the UN Disarmament Commission.

1957

He was also the author of three novels: The World's Game (1957), The Oxygen Age (1958), and Klara (1988).

1961

Thomas's 1961 book The Spanish Civil War won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1962.

1962

Thomas won the Somerset Maugham Award (1962), the Nonino Prize (2009), the Boccaccio Prize (2009), the Gabarrón Prize (2008) and the Calvo Serer Prize (2009).

1966

From 1966 to 1975, he was Professor of History at the University of Reading, and chairman of the European committee.

1971

Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom (1971) is a book of over 1,500 pages tracing the history of Cuba from Spanish colonial rule until the Cuban Revolution.

1973

He wrote political works favouring European integration, such as Europe: the Radical Challenge (1973), as well as histories.

1974

Until 1974, Thomas was a member of the Labour Party.

1977

A significantly revised and enlarged third edition was published in 1977; further editions were published in 1999 and 2012.

1979

He was then chairman of the neoliberal Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991.

1981

He was created a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, of Notting Hill in Greater London by letters patent dated 16 June 1981, and sat as a Conservative, before he joined the Liberal Democrats in late 1997.

He later sat as a crossbencher.

1985

In 1985, he signed a petition against the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, in support of the Contras, an anti-Sandinista paramilitary group.

1990

In 1990 he was one of the leading historians behind the setting up of the History Curriculum Association.

The Association advocated a more knowledge-based history curriculum in schools.

It expressed "profound disquiet" at the way history was being taught in the classroom and observed that the integrity of history was threatened.

Thomas was married to Hon. Vanessa Jebb, a painter and daughter of Gladwyn Jebb, the first Acting United Nations Secretary-General and British Ambassador to France.

They had three children: Inigo, Isambard and Isabella.

2008

The French Government appointed him Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2008.

2013

Thomas also received the Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic from Spain, as well as the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the Joaquín Romero Murube Prize in Seville (2013) and the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (2014).