Arthur Robert Hone
Arthur Robert Hone (18 February 1915 – 9 June 1972) was an English academic and émigré to the Soviet Union who lived the majority of his life in Estonia. A graduate of the University of Cambridge and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, he met his future wife Aira Kaal in 1938 and returned to Estonia with her shortly before World War II. From 1940 to 1941, he lectured at Tartu State University, and during the war worked in a factory and as a librarian in Chelyabinsk, Russia. After the war ended, he again returned to Estonia and resumed lecturing full time at Tartu State University, teaching the subjects of English, French, Spanish, Italian, and literature. Hone died in Tartu in 1972 at the age of 57. At the time of his death, he was the only foreign citizen who was a permanent resident in the city of Tartu. References

1915 births
1972 deaths
20th-century Estonian educators
Academic staff of the University of Tartu
British expatriates in Estonia
British expatriates in the Soviet Union
British emigrants to the Soviet Union
Communist Party of Great Britain members
Estonian communists