![]() ![]() In the event discretion prevailed and Hugh was given Vercingetorix as his middle name.Īn occasional visitor to the Brogan household was J R R Tolkien, whom Brogan, a young Hobbit fan, recalled not only as the author of The Lord of the Rings, but as an entertainer. ![]() The happy father-to-be was said to have raced round the site declaring that if his wife should produce a son, he would be called Vercingetorix. Her husband summoned a doctor who, after careful examination, announced that she was not ill, but pregnant. In the course of the dig she became unwell. In 1935, the year before Hugh was born, his parents were in central France, where Olwen was excavating a site at which the Gaulish chieftain Vercingetorix was said to have been defeated by Julius Caesar in 52BC. ![]() His mother Olwen (née Kendall) was an archaeologist who would become a leading authority on Roman Libya. His father was Sir Denis Brogan, the historian of France and the United States, author of The American Political System (1933) and, from 1939, Professor of Political Science at Cambridge. Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan was born on Main Oxford into an academic family. ![]()
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