John David Mabbott

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] from 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
  1. "Mr. John Mabbott". The Times. No. 62989. 28 January 1988. p. 18.
  2. "St. John's, Oxford, To Have New Head". The Times. No. 55609. 26 January 1963. p. 6.
  3. "Isaiah Berlin: Volume 1: Letters, 1928-1946, Volume 1" Berlin, I/ Hardy, H (Ed) p512: Cambridge; CUP; 2004 ISBN 0-521-83368-X
  4. "Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers" Stuart Brown, B/Bredin, H.T 'M': Bristol; Thoemmes Continuum; 2005 ISBN 1-84371-096-X
  5. Anon (2020). "Mabbott, John David". Who's Who. A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. 'University News' The Times Thursday, 24 Apr. 1924 Issue 43634 p.8
  7. 'Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention' Simpson, A.W.B p210: Oxford; OUP; 2001 ISBN 0-19-826289-2
  8. TW, St John's Magazine, May 2017
  9.  "Mabbott, John David". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  10. British Library web site accessed 10:38 GMT Thursday 7 May 2020
  11. 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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