Sir Tony Wrigley FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1980
- Year of birth
- 1931
- Year of death
- 2022
- Subjects
- History, Sociology
Summary
Born: 17 August 1931, Manchester, England Education: King's School, Macclesfield; University of Cambridge, B.A. (History, 1st class honours, Pts I and II: Geography, 1st class honours, Pt. II) 1952; Ph.D. (1957) Career: Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge 1958-74 University Lecturer in Geography, Univ.of Cambridge 1958-74 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,1970-1 Co-founder, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure 1964 Hinkley Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins Univ., 1975 President, British Society for Population Studies, 1977-9 Tinbergen Visiting Professor, Erasmus Univ., Rotterdam, 1979 Professor of Population Studies, London School of Economics, 1979-88 Editor, Economic History Review, 1986-92 Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1988-94 Professor Economic History, Cambridge, 1994-7 President, Economic History Society, 1995-8 Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1994-2000 Honours: Laureate, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1993 Knight Bachelor 1996 (for services to historical demography) Hon. doctorates: Manchester, 1997; Sheffield, 1997; Bristol, 1998; Edinburgh, 1998; Oxford, 1999; Leicester, 2000; Queen Mary 2004. Hon. Fellow, London School of Economics, 1997 Founder's Medal, Royal Geographical Society, 1997 Member, American Philosophical Society, 2001 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001 Leverhulme Medal, British Academy, 2005
Last post
Formerly Master, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Past President of the British Academy
Past appointments
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Population Studies 1979-88
2012 -
University of Cambridge Professor of Economic History
1994 - 1997
Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge formerly Master, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Past President of the British Academy
1994 -
All Souls College University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow
1988 - 1994
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Population Studies
1979 - 1988
Publications
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Consumption, cultural sociology, food and eating, mixed methods, social change, social and cultural capital, social stratification, social theory, sustainable consumption, theories of practice
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Social policy and sociology; poverty; citizenship, in particular from the perspectives of women, children and young people; gender and welfare; social security
Professor Deborah Mayo FBA
Philosophy of science, foundations of statistical and inductive inference; the epistemology of experiment and learning from error; interdisciplinary work on value-laden controversies in science and evidence policy
