Desmond Morton (historian)

Desmond Morton
Birth name	Desmond Dillon Paul Morton
Born	1937 (age 79–80) Calgary, Alberta
Allegiance	Canada
Service/branch	Canadian Army
Years of service	1954–1964
Rank	Captain / Honorary Colonel 8 Wing Trenton
Awards	Order of Canada
Other work	Professor of Canadian History

Desmond Dillon Paul Morton OC CD FRSC (born 1937) is a Canadian historian who specializes in the history of the Canadian military, as well as the history of Canadian political and industrial relations.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Morton is the son of a Brigadier General, and the grandson of General Sir William Dillon Otter. He is a graduate of the Collège militaire royal de St-Jean, the Royal Military College of Canada, a Rhodes Scholar, the University of Oxford (where he received his PhD), and the London School of Economics. He spent ten years in the Canadian Army (1954–1964 retiring as a Captain) prior to beginning his teaching career. He was named Honorary Colonel of 8 Wing of the Canadian Air Force at CFB Trenton in 2002. He received the Canadian Forces Decoration in 2004 for 12 years total military service.

Morton is the Hiram Mills professor of History at McGill University, as well as the past director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, in Montreal, Quebec. As of fall 2011, he continues to serve at McGill as a professor emeritus. Prior to that, he was Principal of Erindale College, University of Toronto, from 1986 to 1994.

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