John Semple Galbraith

John Semple Galbraith (November 10, 1916 – June 10, 2003) was a British Empire

He was a native of

He was the second chancellor of the relatively new University of California San Diego. As a condition of accepting the chancellorship in 1964, he secured a promise from UC president Clark Kerr that a library would be built and that UCSD would receive full standing as an autonomous university of the system. The Geisel Library is considered his legacy at UCSD.

Galbraith's published work includes: Mackinnon and East Africa 1878–1895: A Study in the 'New Imperialism', Cambridge Commonwealth Series (Nov 22, 1972); The little emperor: Governor Simpson of the Hudson's Bay company (1976); The Hudson's Bay Company as an imperial factor, 1821–1869 (1957); Crown and Charter: The Early Years of the British South Africa Company, Perspectives on Southern Africa (Aug 1975); Reluctant Empire: British Policy on the South African Frontier, 1834–1854 (Jun 1963).

He left the campus for a visiting fellowship at Cambridge in 1968, and subsequently resumed teaching at UCLA.^[1]

References

External links

• John Semple Galbraith Papers MSS 41. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

Academic offices
Preceded by Herbert York	Chancellor of the University of California San Diego 1964-1968	Succeeded by William J. McGill

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