John Vaizey, Baron Vaizey
John Ernest Vaizey, Baron Vaizey (born October 1, 1929 - July 19, 1984 in London ) was a British author and an economist specializing in education .
Origin and education
Vaizey was the son of Ernest Vernon Vaizey and his wife Lucy Butler Hart. He went to school at Queen Mary's Hospital and Queens' College , Cambridge .
Career
In 1952 he took up a post at the United Nations Office in Geneva and was elected a Fellow of St Catharine's College , Cambridge a year later . In 1956 he became a professor at Oxford University . In 1960 he got a call to the University of London , where he was director of a research institute for two years. He later worked as a fellow at Worcester College , Oxford . In 1966 he got a newly created professorship at Brunel University , whose School of Social Sciences he headed from 1973.
Vaizey was offered the post of Vice Chancellor of Monash University in Melbourne in 1975 , but turned it down after attacks by Australian artists on his close friend Bryan Robertson , who should have been appointed director of the National Gallery of Victoria . He became a Life Peer in the 1976 Prime Minister's Resignation Honors and became a member of the House of Lords on June 23, 1976 as Baron Vaizey, of Greenwich, Greater London . In the final years of his life, he served as the principal of the St Catherine's Foundation at Cumberland Lodge .
family
1961 Vaizey married the author Marina Stansky CBE from New York . One of their children is Conservative Party politician The Hon. Edward Vaizey .
Works
- The Trade Unionist and Full Employment ; (1955)
- The Costs of Education ; (1958)
- Scenes from Institutional Life and Other Writings ; (1959)
- The Brewing Industry 1886–1951: An Economic Study ; (1960)
- Britain in the Sixties: Education for Tomorrow ; (1962)
- Education in a Class Society: The Queen and Her Horses Reign ; (1962)
- The Economics of Education ; (1962)
- The Control of Education ; (1963)
- Barometer man ; (1966)
- The Costing of Educational Plans ; (1967)
- Industry and the Intellectuals ; (1970)
- The Type to Succeed ; (1970)
- Capitalism ; (1971)
- Education ; (1971)
- Social democracy ; (1971)
- The History of British Steel ; (1974)
- Education in the Modern World ; (1975)
- Political Economy and the Problems of Our Time ; (1975)
- Capitalism and Socialism: A History of Industrial Growth ; (1980)
- In Breach of Promise: Gaitskell, Macleod, Titmuss, Crosland, Boyle: Five Men who shaped a Generation ; (1983)
- National Health ; (1984)
literature
- Burke's Peerage & Baronetage
- Charles Roger Dod , Robert Philip Dod: J. Berwick Smith (Eds.): Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1984 . Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd., London 1984.
- William A. Cleveland (Ed.): Britannica Book of the Year 1985 . Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., 1985, ISBN 0-85229-428-X .
- Barry Jones: A Thinking Reed . Allen & Unwin, Crowns Nest, Australia 2006, ISBN 1-74114-387-X .
- Roland Turner: The Annual Obituary 1985 . St Martin's Press, 1985, ISBN 0-912289-53-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cleveland (1985), p. 147
- ↑ a b Turner (1985), p. 410
- ↑ a b c d e Dod (1984), p. 284
- ^ Jones (2006), pp. 234-235
- ^ The London Gazette: No. 46945, p. 8867. June 25, 1976. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
- ↑ Jeremy Musson: Interview: Ed Vaizey . In: Country Life . February 14, 2008. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
Web links
- John Vaizey at Hansard (English)
- Register of the John Vaizey Papers, 1926-1985 (PDF; 156 kB)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Vaizey, John, Baron Vaizey |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vaizey, John Ernest, Baron Vaizey, of Greenwich, in Greater London (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British author and economist specializing in education |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1929 |
DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1984 |
Place of death | London |