Sir Lewis Namier

LEWIS NAMIER was born on 27th June, 1888, and died on 19th August, 1960. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with First Class Honours in History. He served as a Private during the first year of the Great War and worked in departments under the Foreign Office from 1915 to 1918 and in the Foreign Office from 1918 to 1920. His career since that time was as follows: Lecturer in Modern History at Balliol College, 1920-21; Political Secretary of the Jewish Agency for...See more

LEWIS NAMIER was born on 27th June, 1888, and died on 19th August, 1960. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with First Class Honours in History. He served as a Private during the first year of the Great War and worked in departments under the Foreign Office from 1915 to 1918 and in the Foreign Office from 1918 to 1920. His career since that time was as follows: Lecturer in Modern History at Balliol College, 1920-21; Political Secretary of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1929-31 and 1939-45; Professor of Modern History at Manchester University, 1931-53; Ford's Lecturer at Oxford, 1933-34; Raleigh Lecturer at the British Academy, 1944; Waynflete Lecturer at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1946-47; Romanes Lecturer, Oxford, 1952; Creighton Lecturer, London, 1952; Enid Muir Lecturer, Durham, 1954 and Leslie Stephen Lecturer, Cambridge, 1958-59. Sir Lewis, who was knighted in 1952, was a Fellow of the British Academy, Hon. Fellow of Balliol College, Hon. D. Litt. (Durham, Oxford and Rome), Hon.Litt.D. (Cambridge) and Hon. D.C.L. (Oxford). He was also a member of the editorial board of the History of Parliament. See less