History Today, April 1st, 2003
ON 26TH JANUARY, Lord Dacre of Glanton, former master of Peterhouse and Regius Professor at Oxford, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper died, aged eighty-Nine. Just as he acquired more than one name, so he had different roles and personae. There was Dacre the public figure, the peer and Director of Times Newspapers, the man of affairs who spoke out to denounce the revised Prayer Book, to defend the Union, and to support his friend and pupil President Bhutto of Pakistan. There was Trevor-Roper, the intelligence officer, and former associate of Philby, who remained fascinated by spies and impostors ...
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