John  Ehrman

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John Ehrman


Born
March 17, 1920

Died
June 15, 2011

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Influences


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The son of a businessman, John Patrick William Ehrman was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected to a fellowship in 1947. Though a specialist in British history in the late-17th and 18th centuries, he was seconded to the Cabinet Office and wrote two of the volumes of the official history of Britain in the Second World War. After publishing a volume on the Royal Navy in the war of William III, he turned his attention to writing a multi-volume biography of William Pitt the Younger, a project that would occupy the next four decades of his life.

Ehrman was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1970 and served as a trustee of the Nation
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Average rating: 4.25 · 20 ratings · 2 reviews · 7 distinct works
The Younger Pitt: Volume I,...

4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions
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The Younger Pitt: Volume II...

4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions
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The Navy in the War of Will...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1963 — 4 editions
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Grand Strategy, Volume V: A...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1956 — 3 editions
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British Government and Comm...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1962 — 5 editions
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Cabinet Government and War,...

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
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