Kenneth Wheare
Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare, CMG (26 March 1907 – 7 September 1979)[1] was an Australian academic, who spent most of his career at Oxford University in England.[2] He was an expert on the constitutions of the British Commonwealth.[3] He advised constitutional assemblies in former British colonies.[4]
Early life and family[]
Wheare was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne[1] and was later a student at Oriel College, Oxford, gaining a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and also undertaking postgraduate study. He met his wife Joan (1915–2013) when he was her tutor.[5] One of their sons is Tom Wheare.
Career[]
In 1944, Kenneth Wheare was appointed Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College. In 1956, he became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. A gargoyle of his likeness is carved on the Bodleian Library, visible from the Exeter College Fellows' Garden.[1]
Wheare was Chairman of the Rhodes Trust (1962–69), President of the British Academy (1967–71), Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1972. He was also a Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1964 to 1966.[6]
Honours[]
Kenneth Wheare was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1953 and was knighted in 1966.[citation needed][1] He gave the British Academy's 1974 Master-Mind Lecture.[7][8]
In 2017, Oxford Brookes University named a newly rebuilt lecture hall after Wheare.[9]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Poynter, J. R. "Wheare, Sir Kenneth Clinton (1907–1979)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ Beloff, Max (2004). "Wheare, Sir Kenneth Clinton (1907–1979) (subscription required)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31822. Retrieved 9 January 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Markwell, Donald (2016). Constitutional Conventions and the Headship of State: Australian Experience. Connor Court. ISBN 978-1925501155. Appendix 3: Two Constitutional Scholars: Sir Kenneth Wheare and Dr Eugene Forsey.
- ^ Getachew, Adom (2019). Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton University Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-691-17915-5.
- ^ "Joan Wheare: Rebel with many causes". Oxford Mail. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
- ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". UK: University of Oxford. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ "Master-Mind Lectures". The British Academy.
- ^ Wheare, K. C. (1975). "Walter Bagehot" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 60: 173–197.
- ^ "New hall named in honour of Sir Kenneth Wheare". UK: Oxford Brookes University. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
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