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Maurice Vile | |
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Born | Maurice John Crawley Vile 23 July 1927 Stoke Newington, London, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Political scientist |
Academic background | |
Education | Hackney Downs School Regent Street Polytechnic London School of Economics |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Political science |
Institutions | |
Military career | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1945–1948 |
Rank | Officer |
Unit | 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured Corps |
Deployment | Palestine |
Maurice John Crawley Vile (born 23 July 1927) is a British political scientist. His main areas of interest are constitutional theory, federalism, the separation of powers, American government and politics.
Vile was born on 23 July 1927 in Stoke Newington, East London, and moved to Victoria Park, South Hackney, three years later. His father Edward, was a packer at a textile warehouse, Jeremiah Rotherham and Company in Shoreditch, until it was destroyed in the Second World War. In 1938 he gained a London County Council Scholarship to Hackney Downs School and moved with the School when it was evacuated to Norfolk in 1939. [1] In 1943 he returned to London and studied for a year at the Regent Street Polytechnic, before entering the London School of Economics, then relocated to Cambridge.
In 1945 he enlisted in the Royal Armoured Corps, and was commissioned in 1947. He served with the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in Palestine until shortly before the creation of Israel in 1948. [2] [ full citation needed ]
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