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Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton
British historian (1931–2017)
Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (21 October 1931 – 7 May 2017)[1][2] was an English historian and writer, best known for his book The Spanish Civil War.[3]
Early life
Thomas was born on 21 October 1931 in Windsor, England, to Hugh Whitelegge Thomas (1887-1960), a colonial commissioner and Cambridge cricketer, and his wife Margery Augusta Angelo, née Swynnerton.[4] Sir Shenton Thomas was his uncle.[5] He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, before going up to Queens' College, Cambridge,[1] where he was a major scholar and later an Honorary Fellow.
Thomas gained a first class in Part I of the History Tripos in 1952, and the following year was president of the Cambridge Union Society. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.[6]
Career
From 1954 to 1957, Thomas worked in the Foreign Office partly as sec