Barry Supple

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Barry Emanuel Supple CBE, FBA (born 27 October 1930, Hackney, London) is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Leverhulme Trust.

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Honours and other positions 4 Family 5 References

[edit] Education

• Hackney Downs School (where he was a contemporary of Harold Pinter)
• London School of Economics (Honorary Fellow, 2001)
• Christ's College, Cambridge

[edit] Career

• Assistant Professor of Business History, Harvard University, 1955-60
• Associate Prof. of Economic History, McGill University, 1960-62
• University of Sussex: Lecturer, Reader, then Professor of Economic and Social History, 1962-78; Dean, School of Social Sciences, 1965-68; Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Arts and Social Studies), 1968-72; Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1978
• University of Oxford: Reader in Recent Social and Economic History, 1978-81; Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1978-81
• Professorial Fellow, 1981-83, Honorary Fellow, 1984, Christ's College, Cambridge
• Master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1984-93 (Honorary Fellow, 1993)
• Director, Leverhulme Trust, 1993-2001

[edit] Honours and other positions

• Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford 1986
• Associate Fellow, Trumbull College, Yale University, 1986
• Chairman, Consultative Committee of Assessment of Performance Unit, Department of Education and Science, 1975-80
• President, B'nai B'rith Oxford Lodge, 1980
• President, Economic History Society, 1992-95
• Fellow of the British Academy, 1987; Foreign Secretary, 1995-99
• CBE, 2000

[edit] Family

His son is the director Timothy Supple.

[edit] References

• Who's Who 2005