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The son of Lieutenant Commander Ian Alexander Rodger, Royal Navy, of Arundel, Sussex, and Sara Mary, née Perceval, Rodger was educated at Ampleforth College and University College, Oxford, where he earned his D.Phil.
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The son of Lieutenant Commander Ian Alexander Rodger, Royal Navy, of Arundel, Sussex, and Sara Mary, née Perceval, Rodger was educated at Ampleforth College and University College, Oxford, where he earned his D.Phil.
Ampleforth College; University College.
Degree in 1974 with a thesis on "Naval policy and cruiser design, 1865-1890". He served for seventeen years at the Public Record Office as an Assistant Keeper of Public Records, 1974-1991. After resigning from the public service, he began a Naval History of Britain with the support of the National Maritime Museum, the Navy Records Society and the Society for Nautical Research.
The Museum gave him the title of Anderson Senior Research Fellow, 1992-1998.
In 1999, he moved to the University of Exeter as Senior Lecturer, and the following year was appointed Professor of Naval History. In 2007, he was elected a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
He served as Honorary Secretary of the Navy Records Society from 1976-1990. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.
Rodger specializes in Maritime naval history.
They used to be leaders of this Catholic movement in England. He is engaged in writing a comprehensive history of British naval history.
He is engaged in writing a comprehensive history of British naval history. The first two volumes: Safeguard of the Sea and Command of the Ocean have both been highly critically acclaimed. He has been awarded the Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History. His book The Admiralty was chosen by the United States. Naval Institute as one of the best books of the 1980s. He received the Duke of Westminster"s Medal for Military Literature in 2005 and was also the winner of the 2005 British Academy Book Prize. In 2011, he was named the first Hattendorf Prize Laureate.
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He is also a member of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1985) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1980).
