Roger Morgan was born in Burton upon Trent, East Staffordshire, on 3 March 1932 and educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School and Leighton Park School, Reading, before studying history at the University of Cambridge (1950-53). After a year as a language assistant at the Lyc¨¦e Michelet in Paris, he began a Cambridge PhD on German history (1958), with much of the research carried out at the University of Hamburg and the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

A lecturer for the Workers¡¯ Educational Association from 1957 to 1959, Professor Morgan then served as a lecturer in international politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1959-63) and lecturer in international relations at the University of Sussex (1963-68), the last post including a year as a visiting fellow at Harvard University.

¡°Roger was one of the most determined supporters of the European integration process and of the UK as central to that project succeeding,¡± recalled Helen Wallace, now foreign secretary at the British Academy. As deputy director of studies at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (1968-74), he co-created ¡°a far-sighted series of studies on the nature of the then European community¡±, where she arrived ¡°as an untested PhD student to write one of the little books¡­I was to benefit hugely from his commitment to giving us the opportunity to publish early in our careers.¡±

Promoted to a chair in European studies at Loughborough University (1974-78), Professor Morgan served as director of research at the Policy Studies Institute in London (1979-86) and ended his career abroad as a professor in the department of political and social sciences at the European University Institute in Florence (1988-96), then visiting professor at the University of Bonn, Germany (1996-97) and the University of California, Los Angeles (2001).

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An early promoter of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies, Professor Morgan wrote or edited more than a dozen books, including Germany 1870-1970: 100 Years of Turmoil (1970); High Politics, Low Politics: Toward a Foreign Policy for Western Europe (1974); Partners and Rivals in Western Europe: Britain, France and Germany (with Caroline Bray, 1986); and Choice and Representation in the European Union (2003).

A lifelong cricket fan, a talented violinist and an accomplished broadcaster, he remained a valued contributor to ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ¡¯s books pages until his death.

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Professor Morgan died of multiple myeloma on 19 February and is survived by his wife Catherine, three children from an earlier marriage and nine grandchildren.

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