Richard Thomas Shannon (10 June 1931 – 19 February 2022) was an historian best known for his two-volume biography of

William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-con ...

. He was appointed Professor of Modern History at the University College Swansea,

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in 1979. He was born in Fiji, acquired his first degree at the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn ...

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, and a PhD at

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of ...

. He taught modern history at Auckland and then at the

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before moving to Swansea. He died on 19 February 2022 at the age of 90.

Works

* with George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark. ''Gladstone and the Bulgarian agitation 1876'' (London: Nelson, 1963). *''The Crisis of Imperialism, 1865-1915'' (London: Hart-Davis McGibbon, 1974). *''Gladstone: Peel's Inheritor, 1809-1865'' (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982). *''The Age of Disraeli, 1868-1881: The Rise of Tory Democracy'' (London: Longman, 1992) * "The Blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British Liberalism." ''English Historical Review'' 108.426 (1993): 239–241. *''The Age of Salisbury, 1881-1902: Unionism and Empire'' (London: Longman, 1996). *''Gladstone: Heroic Minister 1865 - 1898'' (London: Allen Lane, 1999). * "Peel, Gladstone and Party." ''Parliamentary History'' 18.3 (1999): 317-52 *''Gladstone: God and Politics'' (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shannon, Richard 1931 births 2022 deaths 20th-century New Zealand historians University of Auckland alumni Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University of Auckland faculty Academics of the University of East Anglia Academics of Swansea University 21st-century New Zealand historians