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Hugh Swynnerton Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (born 21 October 1931) is an English historian and writer.〔(Instituto Cervantes: Portal de hispanismo ) Retrieved on 2009-10-31〕 ==Biography== Thomas was born 21 October 1931 in Windsor, England, to Hugh Whitelegge Thomas, a colonial commissioner, and his wife Margery Angela Augusta née Swynnerton. Sir Shenton Thomas was his uncle. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, before taking a BA in 1951 at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was a major scholar and is now an Honorary Fellow. He gained a First Class in Part I of the History Tripos in 1952 and was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1953. He also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. His 1961 book ''The Spanish Civil War'' won the Somerset Maugham Award for 1965. A significantly revised and enlarged third edition was published in 1977. ''Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom'' (1971) is a book of over 1,500 pages tracing the history of Cuba from Spanish colonial rule until the Cuban Revolution. Thomas is married to the Hon. Vanessa Jebb, a painter and daughter of the first Acting United Nations Secretary-General Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn, and ambassador in Paris. They have three children. From 1954–1957, Thomas worked in the Foreign Office partly as secretary of the British Delegation to the sub-committee of the UN Disarmament Commission. From 1966 to 1975, he was Professor of History at the University of Reading, and Chairman of the European committee. He was then Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, which worked for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He became a life peer as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, of Notting Hill in Greater London in letters patent dated 16 June 1981. He has written pro-European political works such as ''Europe: the Radical Challenge'' (1973), as well as histories. He is also the author of three novels: ''The World's Game'' (1957), ''The Oxygen Age'' (1958), and ''Klara'' (1988). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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