Douglas Dakin

Douglas Dakin
Born	1907 Gloucestershire, UK
Died	1995 (aged 87–88) UK
Citizenship	British
Fields	History, Neohellenic Studies
Notable awards	Golden Cross of the Order of the Phoenix

Douglas Dakin (1907-1995) was a British historian, academic and professor emeritus of the Birkbeck College of the University of London (1935-1974). He is especially known for his work in the Neohellenic Studies field, in which he devoted the greatest part of his study and research, especially focusing on the Greek Revolution through the mid-20th century period.

Dakin was born in Gloucestershire, England. His father was headmaster at the school of that town; when, in 1920, the Rendcomb College was founded near Cirencester, his father sent him there to study. In 1926 Dakin got into the Peterhouse College of the Cambridge University with a scholarship, where in studied history. He then, started teaching for the first time in 1931, at the Haberdashers' Aske's School, London. Dakin then began his PhD, on Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot at the Birkbeck College of the University of London.

In 1935, Dakin was appointed lecturer in the Birkbeck College. Though his Turgot and the Ancien Régime work was published in 1939, a distinguished achievement for a scholar of his age, his main academic interests shifted from France to modern Greece; the cause of this was Dakin's military service during World War II in Greece. Dakin had joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) and served in Egypt and Greece as the liaison officer to the Royal Hellenic Air force and also had been involved with the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS). In 1945 he returned to the UK from the middle East and was posted in the Allied/Foreign Liaison Section of the British Air Ministry.

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