Jack Gallagher (historian)

Jack Gallagher
Born
John Andrew Gallagher

(1919-04-01)1 April 1919
Birkenhead, England
Died5 March 1980(1980-03-05) (aged 60)
Cambridge, England
Academic background
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
School or traditionCambridge School
Institutions
Doctoral students
Notable works
Notable ideasOfficial mind
InfluencedWm. Roger Louis

John Andrew Gallagher FBA (1 April 1919 – 5 March 1980), known as Jack Gallagher, was an historian of the British Empire who between 1963 and 1970 held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford and from 1971 until his death was the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.