John Semple Galbraith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John Semple Galbraith

American historian

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1916

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Jun-2003

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About John Semple Galbraith

  • John Semple Galbraith (November 10, 1916 – 2003) was a British Empire historian concentrating on Canada (The Hudson's Bay Company) and South and East Africa.
  • He served as chancellor of the University of California San Diego, from 1964 to 1968. He was a native of Glasgow; his family immigrated to the United States in 1926.
  • He received a BA from Miami University in Ohio in 1938, and Ph.D.
  • in 1943 at the University of Iowa, working under his dissertation advisor, C.
  • W.
  • de Kiewiet.
  • He served as an Army historical officer for the Third Air Force until 1946, and assumed a professorship at UCLA in 1948. He was the second chancellor of the relatively new University of California San Diego.
  • As a condition of accepting the chancellorship in 1964, he secured a promise from UC president Clark Kerr that a library would be built and that UCSD would receive full standing as an autonomous university of the system.
  • The Geisel Library is considered his legacy at UCSD. Galbraith's published work includes: Mackinnon and East Africa 1878–1895: A Study in the 'New Imperialism', Cambridge Commonwealth Series (Nov 22, 1972); The little emperor: Governor Simpson of the Hudson's Bay company (1976); The Hudson's Bay Company as an imperial factor, 1821–1869 (1957); Crown and Charter: The Early Years of the British South Africa Company, Perspectives on Southern Africa (Aug 1975); Reluctant Empire: British Policy on the South African Frontier, 1834–1854 (Jun 1963). He left the campus for a visiting fellowship at Cambridge in 1968, and subsequently resumed teaching at UCLA.

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