Romney Sedgwick
Richard Romney Sedgwick (29 May 1894 – 20 January 1972)[1] was a British historian, civil servant and diplomat.[2] He was the elder son of Professor Adam Sedgwick, 1854–1913, and Laura Helen Elizabeth Robinson.[3] He married Mana St David Hodson, daughter of Professor T.C.Hodson,[4] in 1936; they had one son and one daughter.[5]
Sedgwick was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a Fellow of the College in 1919.[6]
His work for The History of Parliament showed that the Whig versus Tory dichotomy survived in the reigns of George I and George II.[7]
Eveline Cruickshanks wrote a book on the Tories and the Jacobite rising of 1745 and said: "My greatest debt is to the late Romney Sedgwick, a staunch Whig, whose wit and erudition I greatly admired, for a series of discussions, heated at times, but, as I well know, much enjoyed on both sides".[8]
Works
- ‘The Inner Cabinet from 1739 to 1741’, English Historical Review 34 (1919), pp. 290–302.
- John, Lord Hervey, Some Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II (editor, 3 volumes, 1931).
- ‘Sir Robert Walpole 1676–1745: The Minister for the House of Commons’, Times Literary Supplement (24 March 1945), pp. 133–134.
- The House of Commons 1715–1754 (editor, 2 volumes, 1970).
Notes
- ^ Who's Who 1948, London : A. & C. Black, 1948, pg.2486; The Times (London, England), Monday, Jan 24, 1972; pg. 14; Issue 58383
- ^ Who's Who 1948, London : A. & C. Black, 1948, pg.2486
- ^ Who's Who 1948, London : A. & C. Black, 1948, pg.2486; Dictionary of National Biography 1912–1921, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1927, pg.488
- ^ Who's Who 1948, London : A. & C. Black, 1948, pg.2486
- ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mana-sedgwick-distinguished-public-servant-804560.html
- ^ Who's Who 1948, London : A. & C. Black, 1948, pg.2486.
- ^ J. C. D. Clark, Revolution and Rebellion. State and Society in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 151.
- ^ Eveline Cruickshanks, Political Untouchables; The Tories and the '45 (Duckworth, 1979), p. vi.
