Sir Tony Wrigley FBA

Economic History (Economics) Demography, Epidemiology and Health

Elected 1980

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year of birth: 1931
Year of death: 2022
Year elected: 1980
Sections: Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/wrigley/

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

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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

The path to sustained growth 2016

Industrial growth and population change 1961, Cambridge

Population and history 1969

Continuity, chance and change 1988

Nineteenth century society 1972

Identifying people in the past 1973

Towns in societies 1978

Population history of England 1981

The works of Thomas Robert Malthus 1986

People, cities and wealth 1987

English population history from family reconstitution 1580-1837 1997

Poverty, progress and population 2004

Energy and the English industrial revolution 2010

The early English censuses 2011

Related Fellows

Professor Paul Boyle FBA

Population and health geography; family, gender and migration; health inequalities; migration and health; disease clustering; longitudinal and administrative data

Professor Michael Anderson FBA

Social, economic and geographic histories of Scotland, the UK, and Western Europe since the 18th century. Social economy of households and families

Professor George Brown FBA

Sociology

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