Hugh Brogan was a British historian and biographer. He earned a history degree from St John’s College, Cambridge in 1959 and was a fellow there from 1964 until 1974. He was a professor at the University of Essex from 1992 until his retirement in 1998.
I'm pleased to report that his letters (edited by his biographer, Hugh Brogan) show Arthur Ransome to be as lovely and thoughtful a chap as I'd expected from his fiction, and as interesting as I'd expected from what I knew of his life. A very good read.