John Clapham (economic historian), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Clapham (economic historian)

British historian

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1873

Place of Birth: Salford, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1946

Profession: writer, economist, historian, author, university teacher, economic historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About John Clapham (economic historian)

  • Sir John Harold Clapham, CBE, FBA (13 September 1873 – 29 March 1946) was a British economic historian. He was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge and King's College, Cambridge.
  • From 1889 to 1902 he was a lecturer in History and Economics at Leeds University and was Professor of Economics there from 1902 to 1908.
  • He was the first Professor of Economic History at Cambridge University from 1928 to 1938, and Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1933 until 1943 when he received a knighthood. Between 1926 and 1938 he published, in three volumes, An Economic History of Modern Britain.
  • He is also recognised for his study of the Industrial Revolution in England, and for describing cooperatives in the initiation of the revolution.
  • He is also remembered for his 1944 The Bank of England, A History.Welsh economic historian Sir John Habakkuk was one of his students.
  • One of Clapham's more notable quotations is: "Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress".

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