Stanley Mordaunt Leathes

Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes ( born May 7, 1861 in London, † July 25, 1938 in Gloucester) was a British historian, educator, poet and civil servant.

Leathes attended Eton College from 1873 to 1880 ( as a King's Scholar ) and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he achieved a first class degree in the Tripos examinations in classical languages ​​in 1882 (Part 1) and 1884 (Part 2). In 1884, he received his BA degree in 1888, his MA and 1886 he was a Fellow of Trinity College. 1892 to 1903 he was a lecturer in history there. In 1900 he left Cambridge to Secretary of the General Board of Studies to be the British government. In 1903 he became secretary of the Civil Service Commission, Commissioner 1907 and 1910 First Commissioner, a position he held until his retirement in 1927. He was chairman of a committee that in 1918 his report was responsible for ensuring that the focus of the classical school education was transferred to modern languages. Also in 1918 he was in a high position in the Ministry of Food (Ministry of Food).

With Adolphus William Ward and George Walter Prothero he was from 1901 to 1912, the The Cambridge Modern History out that he had previously planned with Lord Acton. He was editor of the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

In 1911 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1911 he was CB and 1919 KCB ( Knight Commander of the Order of Bath ).

Writings

  • Vox Clamantis: Essays on Collectivism, 1911 ( under the pseudonym Numa Minimus )
  • Eton. Life in College, 1881
  • Publisher: A Gracebook Containing the Proctors ' Accounts and Other Records of the University of Cambridge for the years 1454-1488, 1897
  • The Claims of the Old Testament, 1897
  • The People of England, 3 volumes, 1915-1923
  • What is Education?, 1913,
  • Rhythm in English Poetry, 1935
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