Trevor-Roper

American  

[trev-er-roh-per] / ˈtrɛv ərˈroʊ pər /

noun

1. Hugh (Redwald) 1914–2003, British historian.

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Example Sentences

But on the very eve of publication, Trevor-Roper, who had been ennobled as Baron Dacre, called to say he had changed his mind and now felt they were forgeries.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

At first, Murdoch relied on the judgment of Hugh Trevor-Roper, a distinguished British historian specializing in the Nazi period, that the diaries were genuine.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2023

Though a severe and exacting scholar, Trevor-Roper was attracted to clever rascals, especially those whose antics played upon the endless credulity of the human mind and the gullibility of bureaucratic institutions.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2020

In that year, of course, Trevor-Roper was duped a second time, by the so-called Hitler Diaries, obvious forgeries that he sensationally declared — at least at first — to be genuine.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2020

Hugh Trevor-Roper has called Hartlib, Dury, and Comenius "the real philosophers, the only philosophers, of the English Revolution."

From The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) by Dury, John