Person in history
Robert Conquest
Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2015 · August 3
- Known as
- historian, writer, science fiction writer, poet, and editor. Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain, Ireland, United Kingdom, and United States
Their story
Who they were
George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was influential to both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Conquest was also affiliated with the anticommunist Information Research Department, within the British Foreign Affairs Office.
Early life
Early life and education Conquest was born in Great Malvern , Worcestershire, [ 1 ] to an American father, Robert Folger Wescott Conquest, and an English mother, Rosamund Alys Acworth. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] His father served in an American Ambulance Field Service unit with the French Army in World War I , and was awarded the Croix de Guerre, with Silver Star in 1916. [ 4 ] Conquest was educated at Winchester College , where he won an exhibition to study Philosophy,
Path and career
Awards / honours: Michael Braude Award for Light Verse, Jefferson Lecture, Antonovych prize, and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.
Why this date
Robert Conquest appears on our August 3 calendar for 2015 as a death entry.
Sources
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August 3 2015.
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