Donald Cameron Watt
Donald Cameron Watt, c. 1980
Born17 May 1928
Died30 October 2014
EducationRugby School
Alma materOriel College, Oxford
OccupationHistorian
Spouses
  • Marianne Grau
  • Felicia Stanley
Children1 son

Donald Cameron Watt (17 May 1928 – 30 October 2014) was a British historian.

Early life

Donald Cameron Watt was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and then was educated at Rugby School.[1][2] He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating from Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in 1951.[1]

Career

Watt served as a Professor of International History at the London School of Economics,[2] where he served as the Head of the Department and Stevenson Chair of International History from 1981 to 1993.[1]

Watt edited Survey of International Affairs at Chatham House from 1962 to 1971.[1] He was the author or co-author of 25 books.[1] He won the Wolfson History Prize in 1990.[1]

Personal life and death

Watt was married twice. He first married Marianne Grau in 1951, and they had a son.[1] After she died in 1962, he married Felicia Stanley. She predeceased him in 1997.[1]

Watt died on 30 October 2014.[1] He was 86 years old.[1]

Works

  • Watt, Donald Cameron (1957). Documents on the Suez Crisis, 26 July to 6 November 1956. London, U.K.: Royal Institute of International Affairs. OCLC 818220.
  • Mayall, James; Navari, Cornelia; Watt, Donald Cameron (1973). Documents on International Affairs, 1963. London, U.K.: Oxford University Press. OCLC 1331464.
  • Watt, Donald Cameron (1965). Personalities and Policies: Studies in the Formulation of British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. OCLC 404671.
  • Watt, Donald Cameron (1965). Britain Looks to Germany: British Opinion and Policy Towards Germany Since 1945. London, U.K.: O. Wolff. OCLC 358292.
  • Brown, Neville; Spencer, Frank; Watt, Donald Cameron (1968). A History of the World in the Twentieth Century. New York: Scott Foresman. OCLC 6536389.
  • Watt, Donald Cameron (1969). Contemporary History in Europe: Problems and Perspectives. New York: Praeger. OCLC 11705.
  • Mayall, James; Watt, Donald Cameron (1973). Current British Foreign Policy: Documents, Statements, Speeches, 1971. London, U.K.: Temple Smith. ISBN 9780851170411. OCLC 55644303.
  • Watt, Donald Cameron (1975). Too Serious a Business: European Armed Forces and the Approach to the Second World War. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520028296. OCLC 1370478.
  • Watt, Donald Cameron (1984). Succeeding John Bull: America in Britain's Place, 1900-1975: A Study of the Anglo-American Relationship and World Politics in the Context of British and American Foreign Policy-Making in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521250221. OCLC 9686557.
  • Watts, Donald Cameron (1989). How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 9780394579160. OCLC 19921655.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Professsor Donald Cameron Watt - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Professor Donald Cameron Watt". The Times. 4 February 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2016.


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