Donald Southgate (historian)

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Donald Southgate (31 October 1924 – 12 February 2005) was a British historian who specialized in nineteenth‑century British political history. He earned a DPhil at Christ Church, Oxford, where he also served as president of the Conservative Association. He taught at Exeter University, Rhodes University in South Africa, Glasgow University, and Queen’s College, Dundee (which became the University of Dundee in 1967). He was appointed a reader at Dundee in 1968 and served as dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1976–77.