David Ogg

David Ogg (19 June 1887 - 28 March 1965) was a Scottish historian who specialised in the history of England during the reign of Charles II and of Europe dominated by Louis XIV of France.

Early life He was born in Glasgow, the son of a civil servant, Archibald Ogg. He was educated at Glasgow University and Lincoln College, Oxford, after he won a scholarship. Ogg won the Stanhope Prize (1910), the Lothian Prize (1911) and the Chancellor's Essay Prize (1912).

Academic career In 1912 he won an Open Fellowship at New College, Oxford, where he served as tutor and later as sub-warden and librarian.

Works Cardinal de Retz 1613-1679 (London: Macmillan, 1912). Ioannis Seldeni Ad Fletan Dissertatio (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925). Europe in the Seventeenth Century (London: A. & C. Black, 1923; revised eds. 1931, 1938, 1943, 1948, 1952, 1959, 1960, 1971 [bibliography posthumously revised by D. H. Pennington]). online 8th ed Louis XIV (London: Home University Library, 1933). online England in the Reign of Charles II (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 2 vols., 1934; 2nd edn., 1955). online New England and New College, Oxford, a Link in Anglo-American Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937). Herbert Fisher 1865-1940 (London: Edward Arnold, 1947). England in the Reigns of James II and William III (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955; 2nd edn., 1957). William III (London: Collins, 1956). Europe of the Ancien Regime: 1715-1783 (London: Fontana, 1965). online free to borrow