Edward Parkes

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Sir Edward Walter Parkes, DL, FREng (born 19 May 1926) was Vice-Chancellor of City University London from 1974 to 1978 and Leeds University from 1983 to 1991.

Parkes attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and St John's College Cambridge, where he obtained a first class degree in mechanical engineering.^[1] He married Margaret Parr (1925-2007) and they had two children.^[2]

Other posts included Head of the Department of Engineering at Leicester University in the 1960s^[2] and Chairman of the UK University Grants Committee in the early 1980s. From 1989 to 1991 he was Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals.

References

↑ Burke's Peerage, accessed 24 July 2009
↑ 2.0 2.1 The Times August 30, 2007 Margaret Parkes.

Academic offices
Preceded by Sir James Sharp Tait	Vice-Chancellor, City University, London 1974–1978	Succeeded by Professor Raoul N. Franklin
Preceded by William Walsh (acting)	Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds 1983–1991	Succeeded by Alan Wilson

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