Laurence Martin

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by KasparBot (talk | contribs) at 18:03, 12 May 2016 (migrating Persondata to Wikidata, please help, see challenges for this article). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Sir Laurence Woodward Martin DL (born 30 July 1928) is a former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University.

Career

Educated at St Austell Grammar School, Christ's College, Cambridge and Yale University, Martin joined the Royal Air Force as a Flying Officer in 1948.[1] He became Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wales in 1966.[2]

He was appointed Professor of War Studies at King's College, London in 1968, Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University in 1978 and Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1991.[1] In 1981 he gave the Reith Lectures on the theme The Two-Edged Sword.[2] He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear in 1987.[2]

Works

  • Considerations affecting an extension of the test ban, 1966

References

  1. ^ a b Academic Archives Hub
  2. ^ a b c Debrett's People of Today
Academic offices
Preceded by Head of Department of War Studies, KCL
1968–1978 		Succeeded by
Wolf Mendl
Preceded by Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1978–1990 		Succeeded by
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laurence_Martin&oldid=719934777"