Sir Vernon Bernard Bogdanor is a British political scientist, historian, and research professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King's College London.
14 Facts About Vernon Bogdanor
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Vernon Bogdanor is emeritus professor of politics and government at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.
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Vernon Bogdanor is one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and has written extensively on political and constitutional issues.
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Vernon Bogdanor's father was a pharmacist whose parents came to the UK from Ukraine, while his mother was born in Poland and came to the UK in the 1930s.
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From 1966, Vernon Bogdanor was Fellow in Politics, Senior Tutor, Vice-Principal, and Acting Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.
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Vernon Bogdanor is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies.
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Vernon Bogdanor is a frequent contributor to television, radio and newspapers.
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Vernon Bogdanor continues to give public lectures at the college, now as Visiting professor of Political History.
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Vernon Bogdanor is a signatory of the statement of principles of the Henry Jackson Society.
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Vernon Bogdanor described Cameron as "one of the ablest" students he has taught, whose political views were "moderate and sensible Conservative".
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Vernon Bogdanor referred to the arrest, search and questioning of the Conservative MP Damian Green, for aiding and abetting misconduct in public office by police from Special Branch, as "a storm in a teacup".
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Vernon Bogdanor was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1998 Birthday Honours for services to constitutional history.
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Vernon Bogdanor was knighted in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to political science.
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Vernon Bogdanor married Judith Evelyn Beckett in 1972; the marriage was dissolved in 2000.