John Farnsworth Wright

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He was born in Sheffield in 1929 and educated at King Edward VII School, specialising in mathematics and physics for which he won a Hastings Scholarship to The Queen's College, Oxford, in 1947. Wright then spent two years in the National Service in the Royal Army Educational Corps, and it was during this time that he studied philosophy, politics, and economics. He then began at Nuffield College, Oxford in 1952 as an early student.[2]

He was appointed Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1953; he was Tutor in Economics 1953–1990, Official Fellow 1955–1957, Estates Bursar 1955–1997, and became an Emeritus Fellow in 1998.[2]

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  1. Reviews of Britain in the Age of Economic Management:
    • Richard J. Brown, Teaching History, JSTOR 43255898
    • Barry J. Eichengreen, The Journal of Economic History, Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers"., JSTOR 2120028
    • Sidney Pollard, The English Historical Review, JSTOR 568229
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