John David Mabbott

John David Mabbott (b. Duns, 18 November 1898; d. Islip, Oxfordshire 26 January 1988)^[1] was President of St John's College, Oxford from 1963^[2] from to 1969.^[3]

Mabbott was educated at Berwickshire High School;^[4] the University of Edinburgh; and St John's.^[5] He 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 the Second World War, 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]

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^ 'Mr. John Mabbott' The Times Thursday, Jan. 28, 1988 Issue 62989 p.18
^ 'St. John's, Oxford, To Have New Head' The Times Saturday, Jan. 26, 1963 Issue 55609 p.6
^ "Isaiah Berlin: Volume 1: Letters, 1928-1946, Volume 1" Berlin, I/ Hardy, H (Ed) p512: Cambridge; CUP; 2004 ISBN 0-521-83368-X
^ "Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers" Stuart Brown, B/Bredin, H.T 'M': Bristol; Thoemmes Continuum; 2005 ISBN 1-84371-096-X
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^ 'University News' The Times Thursday, Apr. 24, 1924 Issue 43634 p.8
^ '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
^ TW, St John's Magazine, May 2017
^ "Mabbott, John David". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ British Library web site accessed 10:38 GMT Thursday 7th 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.