Richard Tawney (1880-1962; ODNB), economic historian and influential as socialist thinker and Church of England layman, close to Gore; leading figure in the WEA, 1905-47, as tutor and member of the executive committee; member, consultative committee, Board of Education, 1912-31; lecturer in economic history, London School of Economics, 1919-23, reader, 1923-31, and professor, 1931-49; member of numerous public committees, including the Sankey commission on the coal industry, 1919; drafted much of the report of the Archbishops' fifth committee of enquiry, Christianity and industrial problems (1918). See also Volume 55, 62, 65, 69, 77.

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• 7 Oct 1919
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• 12 Oct 1921
• 9 Apr 1926
• 10 Apr 1926