Stanley Mordaunt Leathes

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Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes

KCB (7 May 1861 – 25 July 1938) was a British poet, economist, historian and senior Civil Service administrator, being the First Civil Service Commissioner
from 1910 to 1927.

Early life

Leathes was born in London, the eldest son of the

Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911.[1][2]

Academic career

Stanley Mordaunt Leathes was educated at

MA. He was a lecturer in History at his college from 1892 to 1903.[5]

In June 1902, he was appointed deputy to

G. W. Prothero edited it between 1901 and 1912. During this time Leathes enjoyed riding and hunting, frequently joining the Cambridgeshire hounds.[5] For some years he was editor of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, of which he was an active member.[3][7]

Civil servant

Leathes left Cambridge on his appointment as Secretary to the General Board of Studies from 1900 to 1903, becoming Secretary to the

KCB in 1919.[5][12]

He never married, and on leaving Cambridge he lived for a period in the Temple in London, later sharing a house with the Revd J. A. Nairn near Maidenhead in Berkshire.[5]

Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes died at Barnwood House, a nursing home near Gloucester, on 25 July 1938.

Publications

Leathes's publications include Vox Clamantis: Essays on Collectivism (1911) under the pseudonym Numa Minimus; under his own name he published Eton: Life in College (1881), edited A Grace Book Containing the Proctors' Accounts and Other Records of the University of Cambridge for the years 1454–1488 (1897), The Claims of the Old Testament (1897), The People of England (3 vols., 1915–23), The Teaching of English at the Universities (1913), What is Education? (1913) and Rhythm in English Poetry (1935).

References

  1. ^ a b Peters, Rudolph Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society – Vol. 4, (Nov., 1958), pp. 185–191 Published by: The Royal Society
  2. ^ 1881 England Census for Stanley Leathes at Ancestry.com
  3. ^ a b The Times newspaper dated 27 and 30 July 1938
  4. ^
    The Glasgow Herald
    , 28 July 1938
  5. ^ a b c d W. C. D. Dampier, "Leathes, Sir Stanley Mordaunt (1861–1938)", revised by H. C. G. Matthew, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 27 September 2013
  6. ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36794. London. 14 June 1902. p. 13.
  7. ^ Obituary in Cambridge Review 4 November 1938
  8. London Gazette
    Issue 28050 published on 13 August 1907
  9. London Gazette
    Issue 28328 – 11 January 1910
  10. London Gazette
    Issue 33342 – 30 December 1927
  11. ^ Wygant, Amy "Modern Studies: Historiography and Directions" – French Bulletin Studies Vol. 30, Issue 113, pgs 75–78
  12. ^ Who was Who, 1929

External links

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