Stanley Mordaunt Leathes

Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (born May 7, 1861 in London , † July 25, 1938 at Gloucester ) was a British historian , educator , poet and administrator.

Leathes attended Eton College (as King's Scholar) from 1873 to 1880 and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University , where he obtained a first class degree in the Tripos exams in classical languages ​​in 1882 (Part 1) and 1884 (Part 2) . He received his BA in 1884, his MA in 1888, and in 1886 he became a Fellow of Trinity College. From 1892 to 1903 he was a lecturer in history there. In 1900 he left Cambridge to become Secretary of the General Board of Studies of the British Government. In 1903 he became Secretary of the Civil Service Commission , in 1907 Commissioner and 1910 First Commissioner , which he remained until his retirement in 1927. He was chairman of a committee that, with his report in 1918, was responsible for shifting the focus of school education from classical to modern languages. Also in 1918 he was in a high position in the Ministry of Food.

With Adolphus William Ward and George Walter Prothero , he published The Cambridge Modern History from 1901 to 1912 , which he had previously planned with Lord Acton . He was editor of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

In 1911 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1911 he became CB and in 1919 KCB (Knight Commander of the Bath Order).

Fonts

• Vox Clamantis: Essays on Collectivism, 1911 (under the pseudonym Numa Minimus)
• Eton. Life in College, 1881
• Publisher: A Grace Book Containing the Proctors' Accounts and Other Records of the University of Cambridge for the years 1454–1488, 1897
• The Claims of the Old Testament, 1897
• The People of England, 3 volumes, 1915 to 1923
• The Teaching of English at the Universities, 1913
• What is Education?, 1913,
• Rhythm in English Poetry, 1935

literature

• WCD Dampier, article in HCG Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004