In 1948 which South African became the first person from outside the UK to hold the post of Chancellor of Cambridge University, a post he held until his death in 1950?
"Jan Smuts in the Boer War Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and Commonwealth statesman and military leader. He served as a Boer General during the Boer War, a British General during the First World War and was appointed Field Marshal during the Second World War. In addition to various Cabinet appointments, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and from 1939 to 1948. He played a leading part in the post war settlements at the end of both world wars, making"
"country abroad. He was a leading guest at the 1947 wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In 1948, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, becoming the first person from outside the United Kingdom to hold that position. He held the position until his death. He accepted the appointment as Colonel-in-Chief of Regiment Westelike Provinsie as from 17 September 1948. On 29 May 1950, a week after the public celebration of his eightieth birthday in Johannesburg and Pretoria, he suffered a coronary thrombosis. He died of a subsequent heart attack on his family farm of"
"University of Cambridge Chancellor election, 1748 The election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge, 1748 chose a new Chancellor of the University. The election was triggered by the retirement of the previous incumbent, Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, in February 1748. There were two candidates for the post: the heir to the throne, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and the cabinet minister Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. A contest ensued, and on 6 July, the Duke of Newcastle was duly declared elected. According to Elisabeth Leedham-Green, Newcastle's victory ""had been the result of much strenuous political activity"
"nominal election was required and took place on Friday 10 November, Tedder being declared the winner but without disclosing the number of votes cast. Early speculation about suitable names for the new Chancellor centred on Earl Mountbatten of Burma, or the Duke of Gloucester. An editorial in the student newspaper ""Varsity"" on 14 October 1950 began by stating clearly ""The person we would like to see installed as Chancellor of Cambridge University is obviously someone of wide repute within the British Commonwealth"" and suggested that Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister of India, was such a person. The editorial praised Nehru for"
"Davidson Nicol Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol or Abioseh Nicol (14 September 1924 – 20 September 1994) was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet. He has been considered as one of Sierra Leone’s most educated and greatest citizens of the twentieth century, as he was able to secure degrees in the arts, science and commercial disciplines and he contributed to science, history, and literature.. Nicol was the first African to graduate with First Class Honours from the University of Cambridge and he was also the first African elected as a Fellow of a college of Cambridge University."
"honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge Wales, Rome, and Williams College, Massachusetts, and was made an honorary fellow at King's College, Cambridge. He retired from his chair at the LSE in 1953. Charles Webster (historian) Sir Charles Kingsley Webster (25 July 1886 – August 1961) was a Cambridge-trained historian and British diplomat. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge as well as the Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. After leaving Cambridge University, he went on to become a professor at Harvard, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. He also served as President of the British Academy from 1950 to 1954. In"
"Edwin Keppel Bennett Edwin Keppel Bennett, ""noms de plume"": Francis Bennett, Francis Keppel (26 September 1887 – 13 June 1958), was an English writer, poet, Germanist, and a prominent academic. He served as the president of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge between 1948 and 1956. Bennett was born at Wareham, Dorset, England, the son of Alfred Hockey Bennett, a confectioner, and his wife Emilie, ""née"" Keppel. He was educated at Elm House School, Wareham, under A.E. Skewes; and at the Universität Straßburg, Germany (now in France), under Professor Bartholdy. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge as a student on"
"and Art in 1955. In 1954, Du Toit was appointed as Chancellor of the Potchefstroom University, a position in which he remained until 1961. During his tenure he promoted the expansion of research at the university. He died on 17 March 1961, in Bangkok, Thailand while on a business trip. Francois Jacobus du Toit Francois Jacobus du Toit (25 August 1897 - 17 March 1961) was a South African journalist and economist who represented the Union of South Africa as Trade Commissioner in London, and later served as Chancellor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education. Du Toit was"
"Laurence Lerner Laurence (David) Lerner (12 December 1925 – 19 January 2016), often called Larry, was a South African-born British literary critic and poet and novelist. Also a lecturer, he taught in many universities around the world. Laurence Lerner was born in Cape Town, South Africa; his Jewish father Israel was from Zhitomir, Ukraine and his mother May from Abinger Hammer, England. He was educated at St George's Grammar School, Cape Town, the University of Cape Town and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was lecturer in English, from 1949 to 1953 at the University College of the Gold Coast in West"
"in Ruanda-Urundi in the United Nations Trusteeship Council. He was also Belgium's Commissioner for Nuclear Energy, and helped with re-negotiating the terms of the co-operation between Belgium, the United Kingdom and the United States following the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. He was also a member of the council of Lovanium University, the first Congolese university founded in 1954. For health reasons, he did not play a role in preparing the Belgian Congo for independence in the late 1950s. He died in February 1959, 16 months before Congolese independence on 30 June 1960. In 1960, during the chaos that followed"
"Town University and from 1953 to 1963 he served as commissioner and later secretary and adviser for Coloured Affairs, a position that enabled him to do much valuable work for this population group (also for the establishment of the University of the Western Cape for Coloured students, which he was the first chancellor of). In 1937 his anthologies ""Vreemde Liefde"" (Strange Love) en ""Ballades"" (Ballads) received the Hertzog poetry award, while in 1962 he received the Scheepers award for Youth literature. From the University of Cape Town, he received an honorary degree. On 11 December 1981, he died in Cape"
"team matches for the university side. Charles Barlow (businessman) Charles Sydney Barlow (10 May 1905 – 1 June 1979) was a South African businessman, conservationist and philanthropist who built up Barlow Rand into one of South Africa's biggest companies. In his youth, he was also a sportsman: as a cricketer he made two first-class appearances for Somerset County Cricket Club in 1925 and 1926, and as a rugby union player he won four Blues at Cambridge University from 1923 to 1926, captaining the side in his final year. In his family, and publicly as both a sportsman and a businessman,"
"Charles Webster (historian) Sir Charles Kingsley Webster (25 July 1886 – August 1961) was a Cambridge-trained historian and British diplomat. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge as well as the Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. After leaving Cambridge University, he went on to become a professor at Harvard, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. He also served as President of the British Academy from 1950 to 1954. In addition to his career in academia, Webster worked extensively in the Foreign Office, especially in the United States, and was a leading supporter of the new United Nations, as he had"
"1847 University of Cambridge Chancellor election An election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge was held on 25–27 February 1847, after the death of the Duke of Northumberland. Many senior figures in the university hoped that Prince Albert, the Prince Consort could be persuaded to stand and be elected unopposed, but a group from St John's College approached the Earl of Powis, a St John's man. The election became politicised as Powis was a noted Conservative and his opponents feared the consequences from the Whig Government if he was elected. The result was close as the large number"
"University of Cambridge Chancellor election, 1626 The election for the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge, 1626, chose a new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. There were two candidates for the post, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire. The election was brought about by the death on 28 March 1626 of the previous Chancellor, the Earl of Suffolk. A past Lord High Treasurer who had fallen from office, Suffolk had owned Audley End House, near Cambridge, said to be the largest private house in England, and at the time of his death"
"of this pamphlet, which includes two poems, was put up for sale. Former students and staff of University College donated more than a thousand pounds to buy it for the college's library, where it now resides. Christian Cole (barrister) Christian Frederick Cole (1852–1885) was the first African barrister to practice in the English courts. Originally from Sierra Leone, then a British colony, he was the first black graduate of the University of Oxford, where he studied as a non-collegiate student and then at University College. Cole was the grandson of a slave, and the adopted son of Reverend James Cole"
"Arthur Armitage Professor Sir Arthur Llewellyn Armitage (1 August 1916 – 1 February 1984), was a British academic who was the President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1958 until 1970, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University between 1965–67 and Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University of Manchester between 1969 and 1980. Born in Marsden, West Yorkshire, Armitage was educated at Hulme Grammar School and Queens' College, Cambridge. He went up to Cambridge in 1933 where he gained a first class degree in Law. After he spent two years at Yale on a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship and was called to the Bar in Inner Temple"
"its building and a Chair in Public Law after him. David Williams (law professor) Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, QC, DL (22 October 19306 September 2009), was a barrister and the first full-time Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, 1989–1996. He was first educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, and was a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (in History and Law). He was a Harkness Fellow at Berkeley and Harvard between 1956 and 1958. He moved to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from Keble College, Oxford in 1967 and was subsequently promoted to Reader in Public Law 1976-1980, before being appointed"
"on the committee of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. Knox-Shaw played a role in the early developments of the National Health Service in the Cambridge area, and in 1954 was appointed a CBE. He retired in 1957. His gifts to the college include the picture of Oliver Cromwell which hangs in the college Hall. Knox-Shaw is commemorated in the Knox-Shaw Room at the college and on one of the Boat Club's racing shells. Thomas Knox-Shaw Thomas Knox-Shaw, CBE, MC, (1886 – July 1972) was an English educator. He was Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Master of the"
"the University of Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. David Kimble from the National University of Lesotho served as its founding editor from 1963 to 1997. According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports, the journal has an impact factor of 1.041, ranking it 4th out of 38 in the category ""Area Studies"". The journal is currently abstracted and indexed in: Journal of Modern African Studies The Journal of Modern African Studies is a quarterly academic journal covering developments in modern African politics and society. Its main emphasis is on current issues in African politics, economies, societies, and international relations. It publishes"
"Alexander Kwapong Alexander Adum Kwapong (8 March 1927 – 9 August 2014) was the first indigenous Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana He was educated at Achimota School and proceeded to Kings College, Cambridge University in United Kingdom where he read Classics and graduated with First Class Honours in 1951.He joined the faculty of University of Ghana in 1953, received his Ph.D. in Classics in 1957 and became a full professor in 1962. The Alexander Kwapong Hall at the University of Ghana was named after Professor Kwapong at the University of Ghana. He was once a Chairman of Council"
"University of Cambridge in 1349–50. It has been speculated that he is Richard le Grant, chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, and archbishop of Canterbury from 1229 until his premature death in 1231. Richard of Wetheringsett Richard of Wetheringsett (fl. 1200–1230) is the earliest known chancellor of the University of Cambridge, where he served some time between 1215 and 1232. Most of what is known of Richard comes from his ""summa Qui bene presunt"", which he wrote around 1220. This shows that he was a student of William de Montibus at Lincoln Cathedral. Manuscripts of this work variously refer to him as"
"time he was deaf and asked: ""Are they booing me?"" Having been made Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1930, he continued in this capacity until his death in his sleep at Astley Hall near Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, on 14 December 1947. He was cremated in Birmingham and his ashes buried in Worcester Cathedral. Baldwin was a member of the Oddfellows and Foresters Friendly Society. Upon his retirement in 1937, he had received a great deal of praise; the onset of World War II would change his public image for the worse. Rightly or wrongly, Baldwin, Chamberlain and MacDonald were"
"Derek Attridge Derek Attridge FBA (born 6 May 1945) is a South African-born British academic in the field of English literature and a current Professor of English at the University of York, a post he has held since 2003. Attridge undertakes research in South African literature, James Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory and the performance of poetry. He wrote a monograph on South African writer J. M. Coetzee. Professor Attridge's new work, ""The Cambridge History of South African Literature"", co-edited with Prof David Atwell of York, is the 10th work by Professor Attridge published by Cambridge University Press. Attridge received"
"Perceval Maitland Laurence Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence KCMG (20 April 185428 February 1930) was an English classical scholar, judge in South Africa and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge. Perceval Maitland Laurence was born on 20 April 1854 in Woking the eldest son of Perceval Laurence, a clergyman and Isabella Sarah Moorsom. In 1872 Laurence went up to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge to read Classics, graduating with first class honours in 1876. Like his father before him, he was President of the Cambridge Union Society, holding office in the Easter Term of 1874. On graduating his studies turned to"
"placed on the Memorial Gates erected to mark the University's quincentenary in 1951. The Gifford Lectures, a series of which Bradley delivered at the University, were instituted by the will of Adam Gifford, Lord Gifford, and it was his nephew, Walter Raleigh, who succeeded Bradley in the Regius Chair in 1900. Raleigh had studied at University College London and King's College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union, and was appointed the first Professor of English Literature at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh, India. He then worked as Professor of Modern Literature at University College, Liverpool before"
"as a doctor from 1950 to 1984. David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead (3 October 1913 – 18 December 1994) was a British Labour Party politician, general practitioner and political activist. Born in Grenada, he was the second peer of African descent, to sit in the House of Lords. Born in St. David's, Grenada, Pitt won a scholarship to come to Britain in 1933 to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he was an active member of Edinburgh University Socialist Society. He went on to graduate with honours. He was always"
"election. Isaac Cowley Lambert Isaac Cowley Lambert,(1850 – 8 November 1909) was a British solicitor and Conservative Member of Parliament. Lambert was also a sportsman of note, and captained the Cambridge University rugby team in the very first Varsity Match. Lambert was born in 1850 in Stockwell, London; the fifth son of Thomas Lambert of Surbiton. He was educated at Rugby School before matriculating to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1868. Lambert was a keen footballer while at Rugby and because of his old school ties was allowed to join the newly formed Cambridge University rugby team. When the first Varsity"
"Sam Nolutshungu Samuel Clement Nolutshungu (15 April 1945 – 12 August 1997) was one of the foremost South African scholars, and an internationally acclaimed expert on South African politics. Born in King William's Town in 1945, he studied first in the Lovedale High School and after in the University of Fort Hare. Because of apartheid he left in the 1960s South Africa for England, and thanks to a scholarship went to Keele University where he obtained a first class degree in economics, history and politics. He successively taught in the Government Department of Manchester University between 1978 and 1990. From"
"Solomon Babalola Solomon Adeboye Babalola (born, December 17, 1926, Ipetumodu, Osun State, Nigeria – December 15, 2008) was a Nigerian academic, poet and scholar. Babalola attended Achimota College in Ghana. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in 1946, he taught at Igbobi College. In 1948, he received a second scholarship for his bachelor's degree at Queens' College, Cambridge, earning his degree in 1952. He came back to Igbobi College to continue teaching and he rose to become the first African principal of the school, despite being the youngest staff member. He was awarded a doctoral scholarship in Yoruba literature. 1n 1962,"
"and Sir William Turner. In 1883 he succeeded Prof George Gordon as Professor of Mathematics at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In 1895 he succeeded Rev James Cameron as University Registrar at the University of the Cape of Good Hope. In 1918 he transferred to the same role in the newly created University of South Africa and in 1922 moved to Witwatersrand University. He was knighted by King George V in 1922 for services to university education. He retired in 1928 and died in Simonstown near Cape Town on 6 August 1947. In 1884 he married Annie Catherine van der"
"home to be used as an underground library by the ANC and the youth of his community. James Calata James Arthur Calata (1895 – 1983) was a South African priest and politician. He was the Secretary-General of the African National Congress from 1936 to 1949. He was appointed a canon of the Grahamstown Cathedral making him the first Black canon in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. James Arthur Calata was born in Debe Nek, near King William's Town in the Eastern Cape on 22 July 1895. His father, James was an uneducated farmer and a Presbyterian. His mother Eliza,"
"Library. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. His publications include: Colin Bundy Colin James Bundy (born 4 October 1944) is a South African historian and former principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford. Bundy was an influential member of a generation of historians who substantially revised understanding of South African history. In particular, he wrote on South Africa's rural past from a predominantly Marxist perspective, but also deploying Africanist and underdevelopment theories. Since the mid-1990s, however, Bundy has held a series of posts in university administration. Bundy is also a trustee of the Canon Collins Educational &"