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Article: RICHARD OLLARD ; Publisher's editor at Collins, Civil War historian and biographer of Samuel Pepys and A. L. Rowse
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2007
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Historian of the 17th century, editor at William Collins,
biographer of Samuel Pepys and A.L. Rowse - Richard Ollard was a
"gentleman scholar" before he was a "writer publisher", but he
epitomised what was best in both these distinguished hybrids.
Following service in the Second World War and a degree at Oxford
Ollard had begun his career teaching history and English at the
Royal Naval College at Greenwich. His first published work was a
textbook for A. & C. Black, A General History of England, 1688-1832
(with W.A. Barker and G.R. St Aubyn, 1952). But in 1960 he went to
work for the publishers Collins, where he established a reputation
as an editor of flair and integrity.
Teaching, as well ...