Arthur Keppel-Jones

Arthur Mervyn Keppel-Jones (20 January 1909 – 18 February 1996), historian, author and professor, was born at Rondebosch, Cape Colony. He attended the University of Cape Town where he received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1928 and Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1943. In 1929 he received a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Oxford University where he received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1931 and a Master of Arts degree in 1940. Keppel-Jones had a distinguished teaching career at the University of Witwatersrand (1933–1934, 1936–1953), and Natal University College (1935). During the academic year 1953/54 he taught at Queen's University at Kingston and, in 1959, due to the racial-political solution in his homeland, he emigrated with his family to Canada,^[1] returning to Queen's University where he remained until his retirement in 1976. As an advocate of racial harmony, Keppel-Jones wrote a number of books and articles and was active in numerous organizations. He died in Kingston in 1996.^[2][3]