Vincent Todd Harlow (1898–1961) was a prominent English historian of the

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. From 1938 to 1949, he was the second

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. In 1950, he succeeded Reginald Coupland as the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the

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, a post he held until his death in 1963. His early work was on the seventeenth-century Caribbean but he is best known for his book, ''The Founding of the Second British Empire, 1763-1793'', the first volume of which was published in 1952. His second volume, subtitled "New Continents and Changing Values", was published posthumously in 1964. The incomplete manuscript was edited by F. C. Madden.

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1898 births 1961 deaths Historians of the British Empire Beit Professors of Commonwealth History Academics of King's College London 20th-century British historians {{UK-historian-stub