Born 1903; educated Queen's University, Canada; Queen's University Travelling Fellowship at Harvard University, USA, 1926-1927; Sir George Parkin Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1927-1929; Rockefeller Fellowship, Berlin University and Freiburg-im-Breisgau University, Germany, 1929-1930; Instructor in History and Tutor, Harvard University, 1930-1936; successively Assistant, Associate and Professor of History, Queen's University, Canada, 1936-1946; Guggenheim Fellowship to the USA, 1941; Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, 1942-1945; Lecturer and Reader in History, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1946-1948; Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College London, 1949-1970; Member of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, 1952; Kemper Knapp Visiting Professor, University of Winsconsin, USA, 1961, and University of Hong Kong, 1966; Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies, University of Western Ontario, 1970-1972; Visiting Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Edinburgh, 1974; Fellow of King's College London, 1981; died 1988.
Publications: A concise history of Canada (Thames and Hudson, London, [1968]); A concise history of the British Empire (Thames and Hudson, London, 1970); Britain and Canada (London, 1943); British policy and Canada, 1774-1791 (Longmans and Co, London, 1930); Canada: a short history (Hutchinson's University Library, London, 1950); Empire of the North Atlantic: the maritime struggle for North America (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1950); Great Britain in the Indian Ocean: a study of maritime enterprise 1810-1850 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1967); Imperial finance, trade and communications 1895-1914 ; In defence of the ivory tower (New Brunswick, 1967); Le development de l'Union Britannique (1958); Peculiar interlude: the expansion of England in a period of peace, 1815-1850 (University of Sydney, Sydney, 1959); Sea power and British North America, 1783-1820 (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1941); The politics of naval supremacy: studies in British maritime ascendancy (University Press, Cambridge, 1965); editor of The Walker Expedition to Quebec, 1711 (Toronto and London, 1953); Tide of Empire: discursions on the expansion of Britain overseas (McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and London, 1972); editor of West African History series (Oxford University Press, London, 1958-); editor of The Navy and South America, 1807-1823 (London, 1962); The China Station: war and diplomacy 1830-1860 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978); The Royal Navy in the War of American Independence (HMSO, London, 1976).
