Donald Geoffrey Charlton

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Donald Geoffrey Charlton
Born(1925-04-08)8 April 1925
Bolton
Died22 December 1995(1995-12-22) (aged 70)
Tenerife
CitizenshipBritish
Alma mater Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Spouse(s)Thelma Masters
Children1 son, 2 daughters
Scientific career
FieldsFrench Studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Hull, University of Warwick
Thesis Positivist Thought in France during the Second Empire, 1852–1870 (1955)
Doctoral advisor H. J. Hunt

Donald Geoffrey Charlton (born Bolton, 8 April 1925; died Tenerife, 22 December 1995) was a Professor of French at the University of Warwick from 1964 to 1989.

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Education and career

Charlton was educated at Bolton School and briefly went on to study philosophy at St Edmund Hall, Oxford before joining the Royal Navy as an interpreter for French and German.

After the War, he matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge to read modern languages. He graduated in 1948 with first-class honours, and was soon appointed as a lecturer at University College Hull (chartered as the University of Hull in 1954). While lecturing at Hull, Charlton completed a PhD at the University of London supervised by H. J. Hunt. [1]

After fifteen years as a lecturer at Hull University (1949-1964), he was appointed the first Professor of French at Warwick University in 1964, remaining there until his retirement in 1989. [2]

In 1983 he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews.

After his retirement he was presented with a Festschrift: French Literature, Thought and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: A Material World (1993).

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References

  1. Christopher W. Thompson, "Charlton, Donald Geoffrey (1925–1995)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2010), accessed 9 May 2014.
  2. William D. Howarth (22 January 1996). "Obituary: Donald Geoffrey Charlton". The Independent .