Kenneth Wheare
Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare CMG (26 March 1907 – 7 September 1979)[1] was an Australian academic, who spent most of his career at Oxford University in England.[2] He was an expert on the history of the constitutions of the British Commonwealth.
Kenneth Wheare was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne[1] and was later a student at Oriel College, Oxford, gaining a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and also undertaking postgraduate study.
Wheare served on the Oxford City Council from 1940 to 1957. He was appointed CMG in 1953 and was knighted in 1966. In 1956, he became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. A gargoyle of his likeness is carved on the Bodleian Library, visible from the Exeter College Fellow's Garden.[1]
Wheare was Chairman of the Rhodes Trust (1962–69), President of the British Academy (1967–71), Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1972. He was also a Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1964–66.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Poynter, J. R.. "Wheare, Sir Kenneth Clinton (1907–1979)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wheare-sir-kenneth-clinton-12005. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
- ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/vc/position/previousvice-chancellors/. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
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