Salter, Frank (1887-1967), economic historian and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge

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Salter, Frank (1887-1967), economic historian and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge

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  • Frank Reyner Salter, OBE (1887-1967)

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      7 May 1887 - 22 November 1967

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      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.

      ''He was the liveliest of them all, lively in teaching, lively in friendships, and lively in constantly upholding the cause of political Liberalism', 'Reminiscences Magdalene, 1923-1927 by A.M Ramsey, College Magazine, No. 30 (1985-86)

      Obituary: College Magazine, No. 12, 1967-68 pp. 2-6 (F. McD C Turner)

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