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John David Mabbott (
Duns , 18 November 1898 –
Islip, Oxfordshire , 26 January 1988)
[1] was a British academic who worked as the
president of St John's College, Oxford , from 1963
[2] to 1969.
[3]
Education
Mabbott was educated at
Berwickshire High School ,
[4] the
University of Edinburgh , and St John's.
[5]
Career
Mabbott was a
lecturer in
classics at the
University of Reading from 1922 to 1923; and then a
Lecturer at the
University College of North Wales from 1923 to 1924.
[6] He was
fellow of St John's from 1924 to 1963;
[7]
tutor from 1930 to 1956;
[8] and
senior tutor from 1956 to 1963.
[9] He wrote: 'The State and the Citizen', 1948; 'An Introduction to Ethics', 1966; 'John Locke', 1973; and 'Oxford Memories', 1986.
[10]
During
World War II , Mabbott was commissioned by the
Foreign Office to produce reports on popular transfers after the war, in particular the feasibility of forcible expulsion of ethnic Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia.
[11]
References
^ "Mr. John Mabbott".
The Times . No. 62989. 28 January 1988. p. 18.
^ "St. John's, Oxford, To Have New Head".
The Times . No. 55609. 26 January 1963. p. 6.
^
Isaiah Berlin :
Letters, 1928-1946 . , Volume 1
Berlin, I /
Hardy, H (Ed) p,511 fn,4 : Cambridge; CUP; 2004
ISBN
0-521-83368-X
^ Pike, Jon "MABBOTT, John David" in Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers (ed.) Stuart Brown et al , Bristol;
Thoemmes Continuum , (2005)
ISBN
1-84371-096-X reprinted in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (2006)
doi :
10.1093/acref/9780199754694.001.0001
^ Anon (2020).
"Mabbott, John David" .
Who's Who . A & C Black.
doi :
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^ 'University News'
The Times Thursday, 24 Apr. 1924 Issue 43634 p.8
^
Simpson, A.W.B .
Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention . p.210, fn.223 Oxford; OUP; 2001
ISBN
0-19-826289-2
^
TW, St John's Magazine, May 2017
^ "
Mabbott, John David ".
Dictionary of National Biography . London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^
British Library website accessed 10:38
GMT Thursday 7 May 2020
^ Frank, Matthew James (2007).
Expelling the Germans : British opinion and post-1945 population transfer in context . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
978-0-19-923364-9 .
OCLC
173502785 .
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