Thomas Hodgkin | |
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Born | Thomas Lionel Hodgkin 3 April 1910 Headington, Oxford, England |
Died | 25 March 1982 Greece | (aged 71)
Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
Occupation | Historian |
Years active | 1945–1982 |
Spouse | |
Children | 3 |
Father | Robert Howard Hodgkin |
Relatives | Hodgkin family |
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.[1] He was married to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin.