Nicholas Mansergh

Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh (born June 27, 1910 in Tipperary , † January 16, 1991 ) was an Irish historian.

Mansergh was the son of a railway engineer and studied modern history at Oxford University ( Pembroke College ). Then he was a tutor at Oxford. During World War II he worked first in the Irish and then Commonwealth departments of the British Ministry of Information . After the war he was Professor of British Commonwealth Relations at Chatham House . In 1953 he became Smuts Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth (a newly established chair) at Cambridge University . From 1969 to 1979 he was a Masters at St. John's College . In 1973 he became a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy elected.

He has been visiting professor at the Indian School of International Studies in New Delhi on several occasions .

He dealt with Irish history and the history of the Commonwealth , about which he wrote a standard work. From 1967 he published the files on the transition from India to independence on behalf of the British government.

He has been OBE since 1946.

He had been married to Diana Mary Keeton since 1939 and had five children. His son Martin Mansergh (* 1946) became a politician, journalist and historian in Ireland.

Fonts

• The Irish Free State: Its Government and Politics, Allen and Unwin 1934
• The Government of Northern Ireland: A Study in Devolution, Allen and Unwin 1936
• Ireland in the Age of Reform and Revolution, Allen and Unwin 1940, reprinted as The Irish Question, 1840–1921 , 1965, 1975
• The Commonwealth Experience, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1969, 1982
  • German edition: The British Commonwealth. Origin, history, structure. Kindler's cultural history 1969
• Editor: Constitutional Relations between Britain and India: The Transfer of Power, 1942–1947, 12 volumes, 1967–82
• The Unresolved Question: The Anglo-Irish Settlement and its Undoing 1912-72, Yale University Press 1991
• Nationalism and Independence: Selected Irish Papers by Nicolas Mansergh, Cork University Press 1997, edited by Diana Mansergh
• Independence Years: The Selected Indian and Commonwealth Papers of Nicholas Mansergh, Oxford University Press, 2000, edited by Diana Mansergh

literature

• R. Hyam, article in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• David Harkness: Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh, 1910-1991 . In: Proceedings of the British Academy . tape 82 , 1993, pp. 415-430 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 4, 2020 .