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Line 21: ==Early life== Carr was born on 11 April 1919 in [[Bath, Somerset\|Bath]], [[Somerset]], to Reginald Henry Maillard Carr and his wife (Ethel Gertrude) Marion (née Graham).<ref>Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 2003, vol. 1, pg 703</ref><ref name=iwwaw>[https://books.google.com/books?id=phhhHT64kIMC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=albert+raymond+maillard+carr+bath+april+1919&source=web&ots=e_oqySHzDw&sig=s_A2GUYeV96dOv2Awzhf6HOo6-I Carr, Sir Albert Raymond Maillard] in ''International Who's Who of Authors and Writers'' online (19th edition, Europa Publications, London and New York, 2004) p. 93</ref><ref name=peerage>[http://www.thepeerage.com/p6989.htm Sir Albert Raymond Maillard Carr] at thepeerage.com (accessed 11 January 2008)</ref> He was educated at [[Brockenhurst School]], then a state secondary school in the [[New Forest]], Hampshire. He then studied at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], where he was elected Gladstone Research Exhibitioner in 1941.<ref name=ww>[http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=6088383 CARR, Sir (Albert) Raymond (Maillard)]{{dead link\|date=November 2017 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }} at ''[[Who's Who (UK)\|Who's Who]] online (accessed 11 January 2008)</ref> ==Career== Line 30: Carr's successor as Warden of St Antony's, [[Ralf Dahrendorf]], has described Carr's tenure of the post as the College's 'Fiesta days'.<ref>[http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/antonians/2006web.pdf St Antony's College record 2006, p. 21] online at sant.ox.ac.uk (accessed 11 January 2008)</ref> As a historian and [[Hispanist]], Carr's main interest lay in the vicissitudes of 19th and 20th century [[Spain]],<ref name=asturias>[http://www.fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/ing/04/premiados/trayectorias/trayectoria482.html Raymond Carr] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829004641/http://www.fundacionprincipedeasturias.org/ing/04/premiados/trayectorias/trayectoria482.html \|date=29 August 2008 }} at fundacionprincipedeasturias.org (accessed 11 January 2008)</ref> and he was also a specialist in Latin American and Swedish history.<ref name=med/> In the words of [[John Huxtable Elliott\|Sir John Elliott]], " his book on Spain between 1808 and 1939 is basic to a better understanding of the era, and the later generation of historians, both within Spain and abroad, have followed up the leads that Carr gives in his book to great benefit."<ref name=asturias/> His ''Modern Spain, 1875-1980'' was called by the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]'' "a turning point in Spanish historiography - nothing comparable in scope, profundity, or perceptiveness exists."<ref>[http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=28081&cgi=product&isbn=0192802364 ''Spain: A History'' by Raymond Carr] at powells.com (accessed 11 January 2008)</ref> Line 69: Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X el Sabio (Spain), 1983<ref name=ww/><ref name=asturias/> Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal), 1989<ref name=ww/> *Foreign Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], 2004<ref>[http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/antonians/Autumn04.pdf St Antony's College Newsletter 2004] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609082935/http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/antonians/Autumn04.pdf \|date=9 June 2011 }} online at sant.ox.ac.uk (accessed 11 January 2008)</ref> ==Clubs==