Catalogue description Rodney Howard HILTON and Gwynneth Joan HILTON: British. Rodney Howard HILTON was a...

Rodney Howard HILTON and Gwynneth Joan HILTON: British. Rodney Howard HILTON was a member of the Oxford University group of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1937 and of its National Student Committee in 1938. As a junior army officer in World War II he showed no evidence of communist activity but at the same time maintained contact with the Party HQ and after World War II joined the Party's Historians' Group and its National Cultural Committee. By 1949 he had been selected to train Party cadres and in the mid-1950s was a member of the Advisory Council of 'Marxist Quarterly'. His second wife Gwynneth was also an active communist and a committee member of her branch of the Party. Rodney Howard HILTON resigned from the Party following the 1956 Soviet action in Hungary