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Anthony Robin Dermer Pagden (born May 27, 1945) is an author and distinguished professor of political science and history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Anthony Pagden is the son of John Brian Dermer Pagden (died 1979) and Joan Mary Pagden (died 1997). Pagden was educated at the Grange School in Santiago de Chile and Westminster School in London. He attended the University of Barcelona from 1964-7. From 1967-9 he worked as an assistant editor at the Trianon Press (Paris), and as a free-lance translator. He also spent some time in Cyprus in 1967 and 1968. Admitted in 1969 to Oriel College, Oxford to read Persian and Arabic, he changed the following year to History and Spanish. B.A. 1972 (congratulatory First Class Honours) awarded the De Osma Studentship; M.A. (Oxon) 1979; D.Phil. (Oxon) 1980.