Ashley, Sir William James (1860–1927), economic historian, was born at 11 Sun Street, Bermondsey, London, on 25 February 1860. He was the eldest son of James Ashley, a journeyman hatter from Wrexham, Denbighshire, and his wife, Jane (née Short). He was educated at ...
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Ashley, Sir William James (1860–1927), economic historian
E. H. H. Green
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Ashton, Thomas Southcliffe (1889–1968), economic historian
D. C. Coleman
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Ashton, Thomas Southcliffe (1889–1968), economic historian, was born at Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, on 11 January 1889, the second son and third child of Thomas Ashton, manager of the local Trustee Savings Bank, and his wife, Susan Sutcliffe. From Ashton under Lyne secondary school...
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Beresford, Maurice Warwick (1920–2005), economic historian
Christopher Dyer
Beresford, Maurice Warwick (1920–2005), economic historian, was born on 6 February 1920 at 403 Boldmere Road, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, the only son of Harry Bertram Beresford, a manager in a warehouse supplying chemists' shops, and his wife, Nora Elizabeth, née Jefferies. He had a particularly close relationship with his mother, and later dedicated a book to her. He attended local elementary schools and ...
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Beresford, Maurice Warwick (1920–2005)
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Maurice Warwick Beresford (1920–2005) by Zigmund Baumann © Zigmund Baumann
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Berrill, Sir Kenneth Ernest (1920–2009), economic historian and public servant
Tessa Blackstone
Berrill, Sir Kenneth Ernest (1920–2009), economic historian and public servant, was born on 28 August 1920 at 79 Coronation Avenue, Stoke Newington, London, the only child of Stanley Ernest Berrill (1896–1984), a clerk in a men's outfitters, and his wife, Lilian May, née...
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Blaug, Mark (1927–2011)
Maker: unknown photographer
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Mark Blaug (1927–2011) by unknown photographer, 1970s photograph reproduced by courtesy of The British Academy
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Blaug, Mark (1927–2011), economist and historian of economics
Roger E. Backhouse
Blaug, Mark (1927–2011), economist and historian of economics, was born Norbert Blauaug on 3 April 1927 in The Hague, Netherlands, the second son of Berl Blauaug (later Bernard Blaug), raincoat manufacturer, and his wife, Sarah, née Toeman. His father had Austro-Hungarian nationality and his mother was English. They were a Jewish family but ...
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Clapham, Sir John Harold (1873–1946)
Maker: Lafayette
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Sir John Harold Clapham (1873–1946) by Lafayette, 1926 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Clapham, Sir John Harold (1873–1946), economic historian
Martin Daunton
Clapham, Sir John Harold (1873–1946), economic historian, was born at Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, on 13 September 1873, the younger son of John Clapham, jeweller and silversmith, and his second wife, Mary Jane, daughter of John Chambers, accountant, of Manchester. There were two sons and a daughter....
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Coleman, Donald Cuthbert (1920–1995), economic historian
Peter Mathias
Coleman, Donald Cuthbert (1920–1995), economic historian, was born on 21 January 1920 at Martlesham, Long Lane, Finchley, Middlesex, the son of Hugh Augustus Coleman, civil servant, and his wife, Marian Stella Agnes, née Cuthbert. Educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School, he left in 1939 to enter the ...
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Cunningham, William (1849–1919)
Maker: William Strang
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William Cunningham (1849–1919) by William Strang, 1908 Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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Cunningham, William (1849–1919), economic historian and Church of England clergyman
Gerard M. Koot
Cunningham, William (1849–1919), economic historian and Church of England clergyman, was born on 29 December 1849 at 50 Queen Street, Edinburgh, the second of three children born to James Cunningham, a lawyer, and his second wife, Elizabeth Boyle Dunlop, youngest daughter of Alexander Dunlop...
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Deane, Phyllis Mary (1918–2012), economic historian
Jane Humphries
Deane, Phyllis Mary (1918–2012), economic historian, was born in Hong Kong on 13 October 1918, the only child of John Edward Deane (1881–1966) and his wife, Elizabeth Jane, née Brooks (1881–1956). John Deane was an Admiralty engineer who, after a peripatetic career throughout the British empire, settled in ...
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Eden, Sir Frederick Morton, second baronet (1766–1809), insurance company manager and writer on the state of the poor
Donald Winch
Eden, Sir Frederick Morton, second baronet (1766–1809), insurance company manager and writer on the state of the poor, was born at Ashtead, Surrey, the eldest son of Sir Robert Eden (created a baronet in 1776), governor of Maryland, and grandson of Sir Robert Eden, ...
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Ehrlich, Cyril (1925–2004), economic and social historian and writer on music
Raymond Holden
Ehrlich, Cyril (1925–2004), economic and social historian and writer on music, was born on 13 September 1925 at 5 Copley Street, Mile End, London, the elder child of Henry Ehrlich, tailor, and his wife, Dinah, née Jacobs, also a tailor. Both parents were descended from eastern European Jews. Although they were skilled tailors the uncertain economic climate of the late 1920s and early 1930s meant that they often had to seek work outside their trade. Consequently the family finances were precarious and (since his parents moved frequently in search of work) ...
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Gibbins, Henry de Beltgens (1865–1907), economic historian
M. Epstein
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Gibbins, Henry de Beltgens (1865–1907), economic historian, born at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, on 23 May 1865, was the eldest son of Joseph Henry Gibbins of Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony, and his wife, Eleanor, daughter of the Hon. J. de Beltgens of Stanford, Dominica...
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Habakkuk, Sir Hrothgar John (1915–2002), economic historian
F. M. L. Thompson
Habakkuk, Sir Hrothgar John (1915–2002), economic historian, was born on 13 May 1915 at 42 Park Road, Barry, Glamorgan, the elder child and only son of Evan Guest Habakkuk, schoolmaster, and later secretary to the education committee of Barry council, and his wife, ...
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Hartwell, (Ronald) Max (1921–2009), economic historian
Eric Jones
Hartwell, (Ronald) Max (1921–2009), economic historian, was born at Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia, on 11 February 1921, the oldest of four children of Douglas John Hartwell, a country schoolmaster, and his wife, Thelma Mary, née Brecht. He was educated at Armidale Teachers' College...
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Hutchinson, Marjorie Eileen Henrietta Grice- [married name Marjorie Eileen Henrietta von Schlippenbach], Baroness von Schlippenbach (1909–2003), historian of economic thought and Hispanist
Christopher K. Ryan
Hutchinson, Marjorie Eileen Henrietta Grice- [married name Marjorie Eileen Henrietta von Schlippenbach], Baroness von Schlippenbach (1909–2003), historian of economic thought and Hispanist, was born on 26 May 1909 at The Lodge, Silverdale Road, Eastbourne, Sussex, the only child of George William Grice-Hutchinson (1877–1959)...
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Hutchison, Terence Wilmot (1912–2007), philosopher and historian of economics
Roger E. Backhouse
Hutchison, Terence Wilmot (1912–2007), philosopher and historian of economics, was born in Bournemouth on 13 August 1912, the son of Robert Langton Douglas (1864–1951), art historian, and Grace Hutchison (1870–1935). He was not aware of his father's identity until his teens. He was brought up as a Christian Scientist by his Australian mother (in his forties he was confirmed in the ...
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