Richard Romney Sedgwick (29 May 1894 – 20 January 1972) was a British historian, civil servant and diplomat.
[2][3] He married Mana St David Hodson, daughter of Professor T.C.Hodson, in 1936.
[5] Sedgwick was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
[6] Sedgwick edited The History of Parliament volumes that covered the House of Commons during the years 1715–1754.
[8] Eveline Cruickshanks, in her work on the Tories and the Jacobite rising of 1745, paid tribute to Sedgwick: "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".