John Habakkuk
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Sir Hrothgar John Habakkuk (13 May 1915 – 3 November 2002) was a British economic historian.
Biography
Habakkuk was born in
Hroðgar in Beowulf, which his father was reading at the time of his birth. However, he came to be known as John when he started to travel to the United States, and when he was knighted he found it easier to call himself "Sir John" than "Sir Hrothgar".[1][2] His surname was assumed by a seventeenth-century forebear after the prophet Habakkuk, it being a Welsh custom at that time to take patronymics from the Bible.[2][3]
He was educated at Barry County School and
Honorary Fellowship. From 1950 until 1960, he was editor, with Michael Postan, of The Economic History Review
.
In 1950, he moved to
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1977–84). He retired in 1984 and was Ford Lecturer in the following year.[1] All Souls re-elected him to a fellowship in 1988. He was also President of University College, Swansea from 1975 until 1984 and an honorary fellow of the college from 1991. He was Visiting Professor at Harvard University 1954/5 and at University of California, Berkeley (Ford Research Professor)[2] 1962/3.[4]
Habakkuk was elected a
Ulster
(1988).
He was a member of the Advisory Council on Public Records 1958–70, the
Oxfordshire District Health Authority 1981–84. He was president of the Royal Historical Society (1977–1981),[7]
Habakkuk married Mary Richards (died 2002),myelodysplasia, at the house of one of his daughters, Little Orchard, Scot Lane, Chew Stoke, in Somerset, England, on 3 November 2002.
Publications
- John Habakkuk, Marriage, debt, and the estates system: English landownership 1650–1950 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994).
- John Habakkuk, Population growth and economic development since 1750 (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1971).
- John Habakkuk, Industrial organisation since the Industrial Revolution (Southampton: University of Southampton, 1968).
- John Habakkuk, American and British technology in the nineteenth century: the search for labour-saving inventions (Cambridge University Press, 1962).
- John Habakkuk et al., Lectures on economic development=Études sur le développement économique (Iktisat Fakültesi nesriyatı no. 101, Istanbul: Faculty of Economics, Istanbul University, and Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, 1958).
- H.J. Habakkuk, 'English Landownership, 1680–1740', Economic History Review 1st series 10.1 (February 1940), pp. 2–17.
See also
References
- ^ (11 November 2002)
- ^ a b c d e f Obituary, The Telegraph (18 November 2002)
- ISBN 9780197263204.
- ^ a b c David Landes, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine vol. 149, no. 1 (March 2005), pp. 99–101.
- ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ British Academy Deceased Fellows Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "List of Presidents". Royal Historical Society. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
Further reading
- Boyd, Kelly, ed. Encyclopedia of historians and historical writing. Vol. 1 (Taylor & Francis, 1999) 505–6.
- Debrett's People of Today (12th edn, London: Debrett's Peerage, 1999), p. 816.
- Thompson, F.M.L. ed. Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs: Essays for Sir John Habakkuk (Oxford University Press, 1994).
External links
- Sir John Habakkuk: Biographical Memoir
- Obituary[dead link]
- Catalogue of Habakkuk's papers concerning a proposed history of the Iron and Steel Board, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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