Edward Acton (academic)

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The Honourable
Edward Acton
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Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia
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2009–2014
Children2
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Alma mater University of York (BA)
St Edmund's College, Cambridge (PhD)
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Edward David Joseph Lyon-Dalberg-Acton FRHistS (born 4 February 1949) is a British academic and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. [2] His title from birth is The Honourable but is never referred as such professionally or on the university website.

Born in Zimbabwe, Edward Acton is the 4th son of John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton and great-grandson of the historian John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton. Through his maternal line he is also the great-grandson of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh. He was educated at St George's College, Harare, the University of York (BA) and at St Edmund's College, Cambridge (PhD). [3] He worked at the Bank of England, and then held academic posts at Liverpool and Manchester, before becoming Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia in 1991. He was appointed Dean of the School of History at UEA in 1999, and served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) from 2004 until 2009, when he was appointed Vice-Chancellor. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and now lives in Cambridge. [4] He was portrayed by Ade Edmondson in The Trick , BBC One's 2021 dramatisation of the Climategate crisis. [5] [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Burke's Peerage (1999) volume 1, page 30. thepeerage.com
  2. ↑ "University appoints new Vice-Chancellor". University of East Anglia. Retrieved 8 May 2009.
  3. ↑ ‘ACTON, Prof. Edward David Joseph Lyon-Dalberg-’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014
  4. ↑ "St Edmund's College - University of Cambridge". st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "The Trick". Radio Times . Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "The Trick (TV Movie 2021) - IMDb". IMDb .


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