Douglas Hague

Professor Sir Douglas Hague CBE (20 October 1926 – 1 February 2015) was a British economist who was a close associate of Margaret Thatcher.

Career

Douglas Chalmers Hague was educated at Moseley Grammar School (now Moseley School) and King Edward's School, Birmingham, and took an economics degree at Birmingham University. He was assistant lecturer, then lecturer, then Reader in Political Economy at University College, London, 1947–57. He moved to be Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield 1957–63, Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Manchester 1963–65, and Professor of Managerial Economics at the Manchester Business School, 1965–81. With Norman Strauss he set up a strategic leadership programme at Templeton College, Oxford, and taught there from 1982 to 1997. At the same time he was chairman or director of various companies.

One of Hague's first books, A Textbook of Economic Theory, brought him to the attention of Margaret Thatcher (later Lady Thatcher) and he joined the No. 10 Policy Unit under Sir John Hoskyns. He was chairman of the Economic and Social Research Council 1983–87. He sometimes wrote speeches for Thatcher and remained a friend of her and her husband Denis.

Hague was appointed CBE in 1978^[1] and knighted in the 1982 New Year Honours "for Political and Public Service."^[2]

References

• HAGUE, Prof. Sir Douglas (Chalmers)], Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Sir Douglas Hague (obituary), The Times, London, 12 March 2015, page 56 (subscription required)
• Sir Douglas Hague, economist - obituary, The Telegraph, London, 2 March 2015