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Search - List of Books by Alfred Duggan
Alfred Duggan (1903—1964) was an English historian, archeologist and best-selling historical novelist during the 1950s. Although he was raised in England, Duggan was born Alfred Leo Duggan in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a family of wealthy landowners of Irish descent. His family moved to England when he was two years old. His father Alfredo Hubert Duggan, a third-generation Irish Argentinian, was appointed in 1905 to the Argentine Legation in London, and died in 1915. In 1917, his mother, the Alabama-born Grace Elvira Hinds, daughter of the U.S. Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, became the second wife of Lord Curzon, the former Viceroy of India. Duggan and his brother Hubert (1904—1943) were raised in England at Curzon's seats, and were educated, first at Eton, then Oxford University, where they became acquainted with Anthony Powell and Evelyn Waugh.
Alfred Duggan kept a car while up at Oxford, one of the few students with sufficient funding and influence to be able to get away with this; the University Statutes prohibited undergraduate members of the University from keeping a car within a certain distance of the town centre at Carfax, so Duggan kept his vehicle just outside the limit of the jurisdiction of the University Proctors, and would regularly drive himself and his friends to and from London during the Season. Needless to say, the car in question was an early Rolls-Royce.
His novels are known for being grounded on meticulous historical research. He also wrote some excellent popular histories of Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages. Knight With Armour was his first novel, written in 1946. He visited practically every place and battlefield described in the book, because he was also an archeologist, having worked on excavations in Istanbul during the 1930s.
Alfred Duggan kept a car while up at Oxford, one of the few students with sufficient funding and influence to be able to get away with this; the University Statutes prohibited undergraduate members of the University from keeping a car within a certain distance of the town centre at Carfax, so Duggan kept his vehicle just outside the limit of the jurisdiction of the University Proctors, and would regularly drive himself and his friends to and from London during the Season. Needless to say, the car in question was an early Rolls-Royce.
His novels are known for being grounded on meticulous historical research. He also wrote some excellent popular histories of Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages. Knight With Armour was his first novel, written in 1946. He visited practically every place and battlefield described in the book, because he was also an archeologist, having worked on excavations in Istanbul during the 1930s.
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