| R. H. Tawney AKA Richard Henry Tawney
Born: 30-Nov-1880 Birthplace: Calcutta, India Died: 16-Jan-1962 Location of death: London, England Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Scholar Nationality: England Executive summary: The Acquisitive Society Military service: British Army (1915-16, WWI, Sgt., injured) Socialist thinker, highly influential to UK Labour party policy.
Father: C. H. Tawney (principal of Presidency College, Calcutta) Wife: Annette Jeanie Beveridge (m. 1909, d. 1958)
High School: Rugby School University: BA Classics, Balliol College, Oxford University (1903) Teacher: Oxford University (1908-14) Professor: Lecturer, London School of Economics (1917-31) Professor: Economic History, London School of Economics (1931-49, emeritus after)
Workers' Educational Association President (1928-44) Workers' Educational Association (1905-) Fabian Society
Author of books:
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912) The Acquisitive Society (1920) Secondary Education for All (1922) Education: the Socialist Policy (1924) Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) Equality (1931) Business and Politics Under James I (1958)
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