Stephen Roskill

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Birth name	Stephen Wentworth Roskill
Born	1 August 1903 London, England
Died	4 November 1982 (aged 79) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1917–1949
Rank	Captain
Battles / wars	Second World War
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Cross
Relations	Eustace Roskill, Baron Roskill
Other work	Royal Navy Official Historian of the Second World War Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University

Stephen Wentworth Roskill (1 August 1903 – 4 November 1982) was a senior career officer of the Royal Navy, serving during the Second World War and, after his enforced medical retirement, served as the official historian of the Royal Navy from 1949 to 1960. He is now chiefly remembered as a prodigious author of books on British maritime history.