Romney Sedgwick was a British historian. He married Mana St David Hodson in 1936, having one son and one daughter together.

His work for the History of Parliament showed that the Whig versus Tory dichotomy survived in the reigns of George I

George I of Great Britain

George I was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 until his death, and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire from 1698....

 and George II

George II of Great Britain

George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death.George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain. He was born and brought up in Northern Germany...

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Eveline Cruickshanks

Eveline Cruickshanks

Eveline Cruickshanks is an historian specialising in Jacobitism and Toryism. She is of English, Scottish and French blood.Cruickshanks edited the volumes of the History of Parliament for the years 1690–1715 and wrote all of the major biographies of Tory parliamentarians for the volumes...

 wrote a book on the Tories and the Jacobite Rising of 1745

Jacobite Rising of 1745

The Jacobite rising of 1745, often referred to as "The 'Forty-Five," was the attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. The rising occurred during the War of the Austrian Succession when most of the British Army was on the European continent...

and said: "My greatest debt is to the late Romney Sedgwick, a staunch Whig, whose wit and erudition I greatly admired, for a series of discussions, heated at times, but, as I well know, much enjoyed on both sides".

Works

• ‘The Inner Cabinet from 1739 to 1741’, English Historical Review 34 (1919), pp. 290-302.
• John, Lord Hervey, Some Materials towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II (editor, 3 volumes, 1931).
• ‘Sir Robert Walpole 1676-1745: The Minister for the House of Commons’, Times Literary Supplement (24 March 1945), pp. 133-134.
• The House of Commons 1715-1754 (editor, 2 volumes, 1970).