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
- ↑ Winchester College Register, 1974
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- ↑ Robert Carr Bosanquet's wife, Ellen Sophia wrote an autobiography, published by her daughter, Diana Hardman, as Late Harvest: Memories, letters poems around 1965.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38235. p. 1811. 12 March 1948. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
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