Geoffrey Hubbard

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Geoffrey Hubbard (1923 – June 1998) was director of the National Council for Educational Technology (now called "British Educational Communications and Technology Agency; becta) and Chair of the National Extension College's [1]trustees from 1989 to his death in June 1998[2].

He was also a well-known, active Quaker. He gave the Swarthmore Lecture at London Yearly Meeting 1991, published as Patterns and Examples. Quaker Attitudes and European Opportunities [3]. He also wrote in introduction to the Quaker faith: Quaker by Convincement[4](1974).

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Extension College's website
  2. ^ NEC Calendar 2003 (.pdf file)
  3. ^ Hubbard, Geoffrey (1991). Patterns and Examples. Quaker Attitudes and European Opportunities (Series: Swarthmore Lectures). London: London Yearly Meeting. ISBN 0-85245-236-5. 
  4. ^ Hubbard, Geoffrey (1974). Quaker by Convincement. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-021663-4. , reprinted in 1985 (ISBN 085245189X) and 1992 with minor amendments by London Yearly Meeting.



Persondata
NAME Hubbard, Geoffrey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Educationalist, Quaker writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH June, 1998
PLACE OF DEATH