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 .

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 .

1961 Vaizey married the author Marina Stansky CBE from New York . One of their children is Conservative Party politician The Hon. Edward Vaizey .

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)

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 .

↑ ^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.

personal data
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