Charles Frederick Carter

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Sir Charles Frederick Carter FBA (15 August 1919 – 27 June 2002) was an English academic known primarily for his role as the founding Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University.

Early life

Carter was born in

Society of Friends. He lived in Long Itchington
.

He was educated at Lawrence Sheriff School[1] and St John's College, Cambridge, where he read Mathematics and Economics and attained a First. His brother Geoffrey was a Professor of Engineering, who attended the same school.

Career

In World War II Carter refused to fight, being a

Strangeways Prison, Manchester. When released, he joined the Friends' Relief Service
, where he met Janet Shea, whom he married in 1944.

In 1945, he returned to Cambridge, where he became a lecturer in statistics and, from 1947, a fellow of

Queen's University, Belfast. Whilst in Northern Ireland he became a student of The Troubles
, and concluded that a Protestant monopoly on power was unacceptable and could not be sustained. He also chaired the Northern Ireland Economic Development Council. In 1959 he moved to the Stanley Jevons chair in Manchester, remaining there for four years.

As an

G.L.S. Shackle
, and was concerned about the impact of expectations in human decisions.

In 1963, he became the founding Vice-Chancellor of the new

University of Lancaster. He managed to admit the first 264 students in 1964, a year ahead of schedule, by utilising disused buildings as temporary accommodation and teaching facilities. Carter's vision was for Lancaster to be a university for the whole North West, commenting that the people of Lancashire thought of it as their university. He refused "discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, politics or any other thing" and established links with various Higher Education Colleges, thus pre-empting the drive for widening participation
forty years later.

Personal life

His tenure at the University of Lancaster ended in 1979, the same year he was knighted. He retired to Seascale, Cumbria, and continued to work on projects he deemed to be worthwhile.

Works

  • Carter, C. F. (1950). "Expectations in economics".
    JSTOR 2227211
    .
  • Carter, C. F. (1953). "A revised theory of expectations".
    JSTOR 2226641
    .
  • Carter, C. F. (1956). "Review of uncertainty in economics and other reflections, by G. L. Shackle".
    JSTOR 2227525
    .
  • Carter, C. F. (1963). The science of wealth: an elementary textbook of economics. London: Edward Arnold Publ. Ltd.
  • Carter, C. F.; Ford, J. L. (1972). Uncertainty and expectations in economics: essays in honour of G.L.S. Shackle. Oxford: Blackwell.
    ISBN 9780631141709
    .

References

  1. ^ Coventry Evening Telegraph Friday 28 April 1961, page 15

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Academic offices
Preceded by
None
 Vice-Chancellors of Lancaster University
1964–1979 		Succeeded by
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by
Sir Bruce Williams
 President of the Manchester Statistical Society
1967–69 		Succeeded by


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