Background
Hargreaves-Mawdsley was born in Bristol in 1921, where he attended Clifton College prior to matriculating at Oriel College, Oxford in 1940, where he read Classics and Modern History.
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Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley
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Education
He graduated in 1948 and in 1955 commenced postgraduate research on the history of academic and legal dress. He submitted his thesis in 1958 and was duly awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Career
His academic studies were interrupted by World World War II, during which he served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps for five years, before returning to Oxford in 1946. This thesis was embargoed in perpetuity at the author"s request, but the Bodleian Library"s catalogue indicates that it comprises 753 pages in three volumes, and the substantive content was published by the Clarendon Press in 1963 in two volumes. After completing his doctoral research, he was appointed a tutor and librarian at Exeter College, Oxford, after which he took up a research fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a lectureship in history at the University of Street Andrews in 1964.
He spent part of 1970 as a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina before his appointment later that year as professor and head of the Department of History at Brandon University in Manitoba.
Between 1967 and 1979 he wrote several books on a variety of historical topics, many related to England and Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He died suddenly of a heart attack in April 1980, while attending a university committee meeting.
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April 11, 1980 (aged 58)