Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr was an English historian specialising in the history of Spain, Latin America, and Sweden.
10 Facts About Raymond Carr
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Raymond Carr was educated at Brockenhurst School, then a state secondary school in the New Forest, Hampshire.
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Raymond Carr then studied at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was elected Gladstone Research Exhibitioner in 1941.
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Raymond Carr became a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1964, Sub-Warden of the college in 1966 and Warden in 1968, a position he held until his retirement in 1987.
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Raymond Carr is considered, together with Angus Mackay and Sir John Huxtable Elliott, a major figure in developing Spanish historiography.
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Raymond Carr's recreation was fox hunting, about which he has written two books, English Fox Hunting: A History, a comprehensive history of fox-hunting from medieval times, and, with his wife Sara Carr, Fox-Hunting.
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In 1950, Raymond Carr married Sara Ann Mary Strickland, daughter of Algernon Walter Strickland and of Lady Mary Pamela Madeline Sibell Charteris.
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Matthew, a portrait artist, married Lady Anne Mary Somerset in 1988, and their daughter Eleanor Raymond Carr was born in 1992.
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Laura Carr married Richard E Barrowclough in 1978 and has four children, Milo Edmond, Conrad Oliver, Theodore Charles, and Sibell Augusta.
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Raymond Carr has written many book reviews for journals, including the New York Review of Books and The Spectator.