RICHARD OLLARD (1923 - 2007) was a book editor, historian, and scholar of distinction, awarded the Caird medal by the National Maritime Museum in 1992 and winner (jointly with Norman Lewis) of the Heywood Hill prize for a lifetime's contribution to the pleasure of reading in 1998.
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A. L. Rowse proclaimed himself a genius and raged against the slightest criticism from fellow scholars; he was a Marxist who despised the 'Idiot People'; he could be generous and affectionate yet hurled insults at his friends; he inveighed against Puritan... SEE MORE