Alasdair Clayre

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Alasdair George Stuart Clayre (9 October 1935 – 10 January 1984) was a British

academic
.

Early life and career

Clayre was born in

undergraduate, his intellect was compared to that of Isaiah Berlin. He graduated with a congratulatory first class degree - the highest class of degree awarded at Oxford (see British undergraduate degree classification) - and won a Prize Fellowship to All Souls College - one of the highest academic honours in the United Kingdom.[3]

Clayre recorded two albums of songs including many of his own compositions: Alasdair Clayre (

Train Song, has been recorded by Vashti Bunyan (who also co-wrote the song),[4] while Adam and the Beasts has been recorded by Barry Dransfield and Shusha Guppy
.

Personal life

Clayre married Felicity Bryan in 1974. They divorced in 1980.[2]

Death

Clayre took his own life in 1984 by jumping in front of a train in North London.[5]

Selected publications

  • The Heart of the Dragon (London: Collins, 1984),[6] based on a TV series he produced, wrote, directed and presented about China at a time when the country was just opening up to the West[7]
  • Nature and Industrialisation: an Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Open University, 1977)
  • The Political Economy of Co-operation and Participation: a Third Sector (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980)
  • Work and Play: Ideas and Experience of Work and Leisure (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974)[8]
  • The Impact of Broadcasting; or, Mrs Buckle's Wall is Singing (Salisbury: Compton Russell, 1973), which includes a foreword by Asa Briggs
  • 100 Folk Songs and New Songs, a songbook which he compiled; some of the new songs are his own compositions[9]
  • A Fire by the Sea (London: Calypso Press, 1965; 2nd edn Salisbury: Compton Russell, 1973), a book of poems
  • The Window (n.p.: Cape, 1961)
  • Dialogue (Newport: n.p., 1959), co-edited with P. Jay

References

  1. ^ Date of birth given in death index for 1984. General Register Office, London.
  2. ^ a b The Times obituary 13 January 1984
  3. ISBN 0-89356-294-7
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  4. ^ "Vashti - Train Song". Discogs. 20 May 1966.
  5. ^ Goleman, Daniel (May 1996). "Higher Suicide Risk for Perfectionists". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 April 2007.
  6. ISBN 0-00-272115-5
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  7. ^ See IMDB entry for the series
  8. ^ Clayre, Alasdair (1975). Work and Play: ideas and experience of work and leisure. Harper and Row.
  9. ISBN 0-7234-0049-0
    .
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