David Joseph Dunthorn

Background

David J. Dunthorn was born on May 5, 1943, in Wickham, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom. He is the son of Ivor Raymond, a naval officer, and Betty Claudia Dunthorn.

Education

David J. Dunthorn studied modern languages at Clare College, Cambridge, and earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in 1964. Dunthorn also attended the University of Bristol, where he received a Postgraduate Certificate of Education in 1965. David graduated from Cambridge University with a Master of Arts in 1968, from Bristol Polytechnic with a Master of Arts With Distinction in 1984, and from the University of the West of England (former Bristol Polytechnic) with a Doctor of Philosophy in 2000.

Career

David J. Dunthorn had almost a thirty-year career teaching French, Spanish, and German in West Africa and in England beginning from 1965. Dunthorn was the head of the French Department at St. Gregory's College, Lagos, Nigeria from 1967 to 1970, then the head of languages at schools in Bristol, England, 1970-1976. David J. Dunthorn also served as the head of the sixth form at schools in Bristol, 1976-1977. He was hired at Castle School, Thornbury, England as a teacher and a head of languages from 1977 till 1993, as an acting deputy headteacher, 1988-1991, and as a senior teacher, 1989-1993.

In 1993 David J. Dunthorn was a visiting lecturer in modern European history at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and served as a member of the board of visitors from 1991 at Her Majesty's Prison, Eastwood Park, and a board chair from 1999 to 2001.

Dunthorn's is an author and a contributor to periodicals such as European History Quarterly, and Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions. His first book Heredity and Environment was published in 1974, then followed Spain in an International Context, 1936-1959 (1999), and Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition, 1940-1950 (2000).

Achievements

• David J. Dunthorn has been teaching for almost thirty years in West Africa and in England. Dunthorn's research interests are focused on the western Mediterranean in the early post-World War II period, with particular reference to Spain.
  
  He is the author and contributor to several books including Heredity and Environment; Spain in an International Context, 1936-1959; Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition, 1940-1950, as well as to periodicals such as European History Quarterly, and Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.
  
  

Works

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  • Spain in International Context, 1936-1959

    (This collection of articles covers a crucial period of Sp...)

    1999
  • Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition, 1940-1950

    (After fascism's defeat in 1945 Britain did not co-operate...)

    2000
  • Heredity and Environment 1974

Views

Quotations: "From this love of languages (French, Spanish, and German), I have since added several others to my list, sprang an inevitable interest in the history of the peoples who speak them."

Personality

David J. Dunthorn has been fond of foreign languages even when he was young. David's parents traveled a lot, his father was a career officer in the Royal Navy and his mother was born and brought up in southern Africa, so as a boy he realized the importance of foreign languages and the mastery of them is a key to the foreign world.

Interests

• traveling, gardening, family activities, amateur dramatics

Connections

David J. Dunthorn married Mary Ann Horton on December 18, 1965. They have three children: Emma Mary, Martha Elizabeth, Hannah Rachel.

Father:

Ivor Raymond Dunthorn

Mother:

Betty Claudia Dunthorn

Wife:

Mary Ann Horton

Daughter:

Emma Mary

Daughter:

Martha Elizabeth

Daughter:

Hannah Rachel

colleague:

Christian Leitz