Noel Annan, Baron Annan

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Noel Gilroy Annan, Baron Annan OBE (* 25. October 1916 in Gloucester Terrace , London ; † 21st February 2000 in London) was a British intelligence officer in the Security Service and politicians , who in 1965 as a Life Peer due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 Member of the House of Lords .

Life

Studies and intelligence officer in World War II

Annan, whose father James Gilroy Annan served as a captain at the Royal Artillery during the First World War and later worked as an economic manager at various companies , completed his education at St Winifred's School in Seaford and the Stowe School in Stowe , where he was not only director of Temple House , but also editor of the school newspaper The Stoic . After finishing school he began in 1935 to study history at King's College of the University of Cambridge , which he graduated with honors in 1938.

Subsequently, Annan, a member of the Cambridge Apostles , began in 1938 to study law at King's College, which he interrupted during the Second World War in October 1940 to begin his military service in an officer training unit. In the following years it found various military uses and was initially assigned to the Security Service in January 1941. There he worked for MI 14, a small group in the War Office that advised the chief of the Imperial General Staff .

He was then a graduate of Staff College at Camberley and then assigned to the United News Staff of the Cabinet Office , which was located in Prime Minister Winston Churchill's bunker . At the end of 1944 Annan was transferred to General Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters in Paris as the intelligence liaison officer. Most recently he was a senior officer in the political department of the Control Commission for Germany / British Element , the British control commission for Germany. During his military career, he was awarded the Lieutenant Colonel and in 1946 the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire .

Post-war period, university professor and member of the House of Lords

After the end of the war, Annan became governor of the Stowe School in 1945 and held this position for more than twenty years until 1966. In 1947 he also took on a position as lecturer in political science in the economics faculty of King's College, after he had been a fellow in 1944 at the suggestion of John Maynard Keynes "In Absentia" of the college was chosen. After almost ten years of teaching, Annan was also elected Provost of King's College with the support of Dadie Rylands in 1956 and held this position for ten years until 1966. In addition, he became a Fellow of Eton College in 1956 .

Through a letters patent dated July 16, 1965, Annan, who became Commander of the Order of George I in 1963 and was a Trustee of the British Museum between 1963 and 1980 , became a Life Peer with the title Baron Annan , of the Royal under the Life Peerages Act 1958 Burgh of Annan in the County of Dumfriesshire, raised to the nobility and was a member of the House of Lords until his death. In 1965 he held after the evolutionary biologist George Romanes named Romanes Lecture in the Sheldonian Theater of the University of Oxford on The Disintegration of an Old Culture .

After he had left King's College in 1966, Annan was Provost of University College London and held this post until 1978, before he was Vice-Chancellor of University College London between 1978 and 1981 . He was also at this time chairman of the Royal Commission on Broadcasting , which in 1977 presented a final report on British broadcasting. He was also a trustee of the National Gallery in London from 1978 to 1985 and President of the London Library between 1980 and 1996 . In 1974 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Publications

  • Leslie Stephen. The godless Victorian , 1951, new edition 1984, ISBN 978-0-226-02106-5
  • Leslie Stephen: His Thought and Character in Relation to His Time , Ayer Company Publishers, 1952
  • The Intellectual Aristocracy , 1956
  • The Curious Strength of Positivism in English Political Thought , London 1959
  • Symposium: on Teaching Russian Pergamon Press, 1963
  • The Universities , 1963
  • Roxburgh of Stowe. The Life of JF Roxburgh and His Influence in the Public Schools , London 1965
  • The Disintegration of an Old Culture: The Romanes Lecture Delivered in the Sheldoninan Theater , Clarendon Press 1965
  • Ideas and Beliefs of Victorians: An Historic Revaluation of the Victorian Age , Dutton, 1966
  • Report of the Disturbances in the University of Essex , 1974
  • The Politics of Broadcasting: The Eighth Encyclopaedia Britannica Lecture , University of Edinburgh, 1977
  • Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting , HM Stationery Service, 1977
  • Anti-Semitism / anti-Zionism: the Link , Center for Contemporary Studies, 1985
  • Our Age: English intellectuals between the world wars , 1990, ISBN 978-0-394-54295-9
  • Changing Enemies: The defeat and regeneration of Germany , 1995, ISBN 978-0-801-48490-2
  • The Dons: Mentors, eccentrics and geniuses , HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 1999, ISBN 978-0-226-02108-9

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SURNAME Annan, Noel, Baron Annan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Annan, Noel Gilroy, Baron Annan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author, university president and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Gloucester Terrace , London
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2000
Place of death London