Charles Bosanquet (academic)

Charles Ion Carr Bosanquet (19 April 1903 – 1986) was the first Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University.

Career

Born the son of Robert Carr Bosanquet, Bosanquet was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class honours degree in History. After a career in business and journalism, he worked as a civil servant during World War II. He then became Treasurer of Christ Church, Oxford. [1] He was appointed Rector of King's College, Newcastle in 1952 and then became the first Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University in 1963.[2] In that role he welcomed Martin Luther King, Jr. to the University and presented him with a Doctor of Civil Law degree.[3]

In 1931 he married Barbara Schiefflin,[4] an American.[5]

He lived at Rock Moor House near Alnwick and became High Sheriff of Northumberland.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Winchester College Register, 1974
  2. ↑ "Dr Charles Ian Carr Bosanquet". BBC. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "The Archive". The King Centre. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Robert Carr Bosanquet's wife, Ellen Sophia wrote an autobiography, published by her daughter, Diana Hardman, as Late Harvest: Memories, letters poems around 1965.
  5. ↑ "St Philip and St James Church Rock". Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38235. p. 1811. 12 March 1948. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
Academic offices
Preceded by
New Post		 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1963–1968 		Succeeded by
Henry Miller
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