John Nicholson Black
John Nicholson Black
Education
John Nicholson Black was educated at Rugby School and Exeter College, Oxford.[1]
Career
He did war service with the
Waite Research Institute where he was awarded a DSc in 1965. Black was also an accomplished musician and while residing in Adelaide he established the Burnside Symphony Orchestra, then comprising both professional and amateur musicians.[3] He led the orchestra from 1957-1963.[4]
He was Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Edinburgh from 1963–71 before becoming Principal of Bedford College.[1]
Bedford came under considerable financial pressure in the 1970s from cuts in grants and the limitations of the college site in
Royal Holloway College 'fell on stony ground'.[2] Black came from one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom and: "...was well aware that a college of only eleven hundred students with grant/fee income to match could not be expected to support as many as twenty academic departments in a wide spread of disciplines, especially at a time when public funding was seriously reduced." The inevitable merger came under the next principal (Dorothy Wedderburn)'s leadership.[2]
Personal life
He married, first, in 1952 Mary Denise Webb (died 1966) with whom he had a daughter and a son. He married, second, in 1967 Wendy Marjorie Waterston with whom he has two sons. [citation needed]
He died on 6 October 2018 at the age of 96.[5]
Notes
- ^ a b c BLACK, John Nicholson, Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; accessed 30 May 2012
- ^ a b c Contributing authors - edited by J Mordaunt Crook (2001). Bedford College - Memories of 150 years. Royal Holloway College, Englefield Green, Surrey: RHC University of London.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ Horner, John (22 June 1957). "Dr. John Black has cured a musical headache". The Advertiser.
- ^ Horner, John (6 November 1963). "Triumphant finale by conductor". The Advertiser.
- ^ John Nicholson Black
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