Trevor-Roper

[trev-er-roh-per]

noun

1. Hugh (Redwald) 1914–2003, British historian.

Example Sentences

But on the very eve of publication, Trevor-Roper, who had been ennobled as Baron Dacre, called to say he had changed his mind and now felt they were forgeries.

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At first, Murdoch relied on the judgment of Hugh Trevor-Roper, a distinguished British historian specializing in the Nazi period, that the diaries were genuine.

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In that year, of course, Trevor-Roper was duped a second time, by the so-called Hitler Diaries, obvious forgeries that he sensationally declared — at least at first — to be genuine.

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He died, obscure and poor, in 2005, though Trevor-Roper had lost interest in him by 1983.

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Over the years Trevor-Roper accumulated an entire dossier devoted to the case.

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