1. John Ashley Soames Grenville was a historian of the modern world.
18 Facts About John Grenville
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John Grenville was born Hans Guhrauer in Berlin, Germany on 11 January 1928.
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John Grenville officially changed his name in 1949 to John Ashley Soames Grenville upon receiving British citizenship.
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John Grenville's father had limited means to support the family and John attended a boarding school in Essex, followed by attendance at Cambridge Technical School.
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John Grenville then took a gardening job in Peterhouse, Cambridge.
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John Grenville was given access to the library at the college, but only if he promised not to apply there.
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John Grenville then attended Birkbeck College and the London School of Economics.
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John Grenville studied under Sir Charles Webster and received a First Class Honours Degree in History in 1951 and a PhD, for which he was awarded the Hutchinson Medal, in 1953.
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John Grenville's dissertation was entitled Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy: The Close of the 19th Century.
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John Grenville was later a Commonwealth Fund Fellow at Yale University.
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John Grenville began his academic career at the University of Nottingham where he was an assistant Lecturer and Reader in History.
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John Grenville was Professor of International History at the University of Leeds from 1966 to 1969, then Professor and Head of the Department of Modern History at the University of Birmingham from 1969 to 1994.
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John Grenville later worked at Hamburg University and London's Leo Baeck Institute.
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John Grenville focused on portraying himself as an Englishman with German roots; thus, most of his studies revolved around this.
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John Grenville developed the international studies degree at Leeds, which focused on the use of film as a tool for understanding history.
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John Grenville lectured at many universities including the University of California and was known for his affable and good natured personality.
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John Grenville met Betty Anne Rosenberg through a Harkness Fellowship at Yale; they had three sons together.
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John Grenville had lost her husband to a heart attack when pregnant and had since had a girl, she named Claire.