List of Fellows of the British Academy elected in the 1950s

Last updated October 03, 2019

The British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, it elects fellows to its membership. The following were elected in the 1950s.

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spanning all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and a funding body for research projects across the United Kingdom. The academy is a self-governing and independent registered charity, based at 10–11 Carlton House Terrace in London.

1950

Anthony Frederick Blunt, styled as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO, from 1956 to 1979, was a leading British art historian who in 1964, after being offered immunity from prosecution, confessed to having been a Soviet spy.

Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt, FBA was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who also made contributions to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ. Shortly after he died, his studies of inheritance and intelligence were discredited after evidence emerged indicating he had falsified research data, inventing correlations in separated twins which did not exist.

Sir William Keith Hancock, was a prominent Australian historian.

1951

Professor P. Alexander
Professor T. S. Ashton
Professor C. R. Cheney
Dr J. G. D. Clark
Professor A. R. Johnson
Professor J. E. Meade
J. B. Ward Perkins
Professor A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
Rev. Professor N. Sykes
Professor J. Wilde

Peter Alexander, was a Scottish literary scholar. He was Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow and a noted Shakespearean scholar. His collected works of Shakespeare are known as "the Alexander text". In 1914, he joined the army as a private in the Cameron Highlanders but left in 1918 after he became an artillery officer. Alexander returned to Glasgow to finish his undergraduate studies and graduated in 1920 with an M.A degree.

Thomas Southcliffe Ashton (1889–1968) was an English economic historian. He was professor of economic history at the London School of Economics at the University of London from 1944 until 1954, and Emeritus Professor until his death in 1968. His best known work is the 1948 textbook The Industrial Revolution (1760–1830), which put forth a positive view on the benefits of the era.

Christopher Robert Cheney was a medieval historian, noted for his work on the medieval English church and the relations of the papacy with England, particularly in the age of Pope Innocent III.

1952

Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute.

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer, usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).

Aylward Manley Blackman, FBA was a British Egyptologist, who excavated various sites in Egypt and Nubia, notably Buhen and Meir. Having taught at Worcester College, Oxford, he was Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool from 1934 to 1948. He was additionally a special lecturer at the University of Manchester, and was involved in or led a number of excavations with the Egypt Exploration Society.

1953

Professor J. Cerny
Professor E. J. Dent
Professor M. Ginsberg
Professor R. H. Lightfoot
Professor W. L. Lorimer
Professor S. Piggott
Lady Stenton
Professor J. R. Sutherland
Professor F. W. Walbank
Dr E. J. Wellesz

Jaroslav Černý was a Czech Egyptologist. From 1929 to 1946 he was a lecturer and docent at Charles University in Prague, from 1946 to 1951, the Edwards Professor of Egyptology at the University College, London. From 1951 to 1965, he was Professor of Egyptology at University of Oxford.

Edward Joseph Dent, generally known as Edward J. Dent, was a British writer on music.

Morris Ginsberg FBA was a British sociologist, who played a key role in the development of the discipline. He served as editor of The Sociological Review in the 1930s and later became the founding chairman of the British Sociological Association in 1951 and its first President (1955–1957). He was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1942 to 1943, and helped draft the UNESCO 1950 statement titled The Race Question.

1954

Donald James Allan, was a British classical scholar. He was Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow from 1957 to 1971.

Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot, FBA was a British legal scholar. A fellow of Hertford College, Oxford from 1924 to 1959, he was known for his works on English legal history and for his textbook on English contract law, commonly known as Cheshire and Fifoot's Law of Contract, now in its seventeenth edition.

Henri "Hans" Frankfort was a Dutch Egyptologist, archaeologist and orientalist.

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References

"Deaths and elections of fellows." Proceedings of the British Academy, annual reports 1950–1959. British Academy.

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