R. H. Tawney

R. H. Tawney
Born
Richard Henry Tawney

(1880-11-30)30 November 1880
Died16 January 1962(1962-01-16) (aged 81)
London, England
NationalityEnglish
Other namesHarry Tawney
Political partyLabour
MovementChristian socialism
Spouse
Jeannette Tawney
(m. 1909)
Academic background
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline
Sub-disciplineEconomic history
InstitutionsLondon School of Economics
Notable works
  • The Acquisitive Society (1920)
  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926)
  • Equality (1931)

Richard Henry Tawney[a] (30 November 1880 – 16 January 1962) was an English economic historian,[1][2] social critic,[3][4] ethical socialist,[5] Christian socialist,[6][7] and important proponent of adult education.[8][9] The Oxford Companion to British History (1997) explained that Tawney made a "significant impact" in these "interrelated roles".[10] A. L. Rowse goes further by insisting that "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally".[11]


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  1. ^ Magnússon, M. (ed.) (1996, fifth ed. reprint), Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Chambers, Edinburgh, ISBN 0-550-16041-8 paperback, p. 1435
  2. ^ Rose Benét, William (1988). The Reader's Encyclopedia (third ed.). London: Guild Publishing (by arrangement with A.C. Black). p. 961. One of the foremost students of the development of capitalism.
  3. ^ Nicholls, C.S. (1996). The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography. Oxford: Helicon. p. 836. ISBN 978-1-85986-157-8.
  4. ^ Thane, Pat (2001). Cassell's Companion to Twentieth Century Britain. London: Cassell & Co. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-304-34794-0. Tawney remained an influential social thinker from the interwar years through to the 1950s.
  5. ^ Noel W. Thompson. Political economy and the Labour Party: the economics of democratic socialism, 1884-2005. 2nd edition. Oxon, England, UK; New York, New York, US: Routledge, 2006.
  6. ^ Gardiner, Juliet, ed. (1995). The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. p. 734. ISBN 978-1-85585-261-7.
  7. ^ Ormrod, David (1990). Fellowship, Freedom & Equality: Lectures in Memory of R.H. Tawney. London: Christian Socialist Movement. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-900286-01-8. Tawney's was undoubtedly the most forceful and authentic voice of Christian socialist prophecy to be raised during the 1920s and 30s, echoing into the 1950s.
  8. ^ Drabble, M. (ed.) (1987), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 965
  9. ^ Elsey, B. (1987) "R. H. Tawney – Patron saint of adult education", in P. Jarvis (ed.) Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult Education, Croom Helm, Beckenham: Tawney is "the patron saint of adult education"
  10. ^ Cannon, John, ed. (1997). The Oxford Companion to British History (Softback Preview ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 909. ISBN 978-0-19-866176-4.
  11. ^ Rowse, A. L. (1995), Historians I Have Known, Gerald Duckworth & Co., London, p. 92