Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Salter, Frank (1887-1967), economic historian and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Parallel form(s) of name
- Frank Reyner Salter, OBE (1887-1967)
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
7 May 1887 - 22 November 1967
History
Educated at St Paul's and matriculated from Trinity College in 1905.
He came to Magdalene to teach history (his main field being sixteenth-century economic history) and was elected a Fellow in 1910.
He was a Tutor from 1927 to 1945 and President of the College from 1951 to 1957.
Appointed University Lecturer in History in 1926.
Unsuccessfully contested the Cambridge constituency seat as a Liberal in the 1924 Election. Warden of Madingley Hall, 1954 - 1961.
Obituary: College Magazine, No. 12, 1967-68 pp. 2-6 (F. McD C Turner)