Barry Gough prize-winning and acclaimed historian and biographer, is a Fellow of Kings College London and Archives Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge. He is author of numerous studies of sea power and imperial affairs, including Historical Dreadnoughts and That Hamilton Woman, Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and its Aftermath, and, most recently, Churchill and Fisher: Titans at the Admiralty. He is emeritus professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. He is a Life Member of the U.S. Naval Insitute.