Barry Supple

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Name Barry Supple
Education London School of Economics and Political Science Books Commercial Crisis and Change in England, 1600-1642: A Study in the Instability of a Mercantile Economy

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Barry Emanuel Supple, CBE, FBA (born 27 October 1930, Hackney, London), is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Leverhulme Trust. He is the father of theatre and opera director Tim Supple.

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Education

Hackney Downs School (where he was a contemporary of Harold Pinter)

London School of Economics (Honorary Fellow, 2001)

Christ's College, Cambridge

Career

Assistant Professor of Business History, Harvard University, 1955–1960

Associate Prof. of Economic History, McGill University, 1960–1962

University of Sussex: Lecturer, Reader, then Professor of Economic and Social History, 1962–1978; Dean, School of Social Sciences, 1965–1968; Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Arts and Social Studies), 1968–1972; Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1978

University of Oxford: Reader in Recent Social and Economic History, 1978–1981; Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1978–1981

Professorial Fellow, 1981–1983, Honorary Fellow, 1984, Christ's College, Cambridge

Master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1984-1993 (Honorary Fellow, 1993)

Director, Leverhulme Trust, 1993–2001

Honours and other positions

Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford 1986

Associate Fellow, Trumbull College, Yale University, 1986

Chairman, Consultative Committee of Assessment of Performance Unit, Department of Education and Science, 1975–1980

President, Economic History Society, 1992–1995

Fellow of the British Academy, 1987; Foreign Secretary, 1995–1999

CBE, 2000

References

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