| LC control no. | n 79026890 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Roskill, S. W. (Stephen Wentworth), 1903-1982 |
| Variant(s) | Roskill, Stephen Wentworth |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Associated place | Cambridge (England) |
| Birth date | 1903 |
| Death date | 1982 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | Cambridge (England) |
| Field of activity | Naval art and science Naval history |
| Affiliation | Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Historical Section Churchill College Churchill College. Archives Centre Navy Records Society (Great Britain) British Academy |
| Profession or occupation | Navies--Officers Naval historians |
| Found in | His The war at sea, 1954- HMS Warspite, 1997: CIP title page (Capt. S.W. Roskill, RN) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1903) Naval policy between the wars, 1978: title page (Captain S.W. Roskill; CBE, DSC, Litt D, RN) page iv (Captain Stephen Roskill) Wikipedia, viewed July 22, 2014 (Stephen Roskill; Captain Stephen Wentworth Roskill; born August 1, 1903, in London; career officer in the Royal Navy, which he joined in 1917, attending the Royal Naval College at Osborne and the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth; served at sea as a gunnery officer and instructed at the gunnery school HMS Excellent; was a member of the Naval Staff, 1939-1941, then served as executive officer of HMNZS Leander, 1941-1944; in March 1944 he was promoted acting captain and sent to join the British Admiralty delegation in Washington, D.C. as chief staff officer for administration and weapons; served as Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, 1946-1948, before retiring as a captain due to increasing deafness caused by gun detonations; he was appointed by the Cabinet Office Historial Section to write the official naval history of the Second World War; in 1961 he was elected a senior research fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, where he was instrumental in the foundation of the Churchill Archives Centre; after retirement he was a visiting lecturer at several universities; elected a vice president of the Navy Records Society in 1964 and an honorary vice president in 1974; elected a Fellow of the British Academy; died November 4, 1982) Janus WWW site, viewed July 23, 2014 participating institutions page (Stephen Roskill; official naval historian of the Second World War in the Cabinet Office Historial Section, 1949-1960; Senior Research Fellow, 1961-1970 and Pensioner Fellow, 1971-1982 at Churchill College, Cambridge; born in London, August 1, 1903; died in Cambridge, November 4, 1982) |
| Associated language | eng |
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