DeathAugust 32015

Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)

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When
Monday, August 3 201511 years ago
Category
DeathA notable person who died on this day.
Era
21st century · 2010s
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Person
Robert Conquest

At a glance

Born 1917-07-15; died 2015-08-03.

Known as: historian, writer, science fiction writer, poet, and editor. Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom, and United States.

Listed as: human.

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.

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