Turner, H. A. (Herbert Arthur), 1919-1998 (Personal Name)

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Wikipedia, January 16, 2014 (Herbert Arthur Frederick Turner; Herbert "Bert" Arthur Frederick Turner (1919-1998) was a British economist, statistician, and academic; his great strength was a thorough understanding of economics and statistics, particularly the operation of labour markets and the limitations of available statistics; Turner, known as Bert to family, friends, and colleagues, was born in London on December 11, 1919; he studied at the Henry Thornton School in Clapham before going to the London School of Economics, aged 16, to study with Harold Laski; he graduated in June 1939 and spent the war years first in the army then on the Second Sea Lord s staff; in 1944, Turner joined the research and economic department of the Trades Union Congress, serving as part of the team that prepared the Interim Report on Post-War Reconstruction, which mapped out the Attlee government s program; in 1947, Turner became Assistant Education Secretary for the TUC; in 1950, Turner was elected to the lectureship in industrial relations at Manchester University and became Senior Lecturer in 1959; he defended his Ph. D. on industrial relations in the cotton industry in 1960; Turner moved to Leeds University in 1961, when he was elected to the Montague Burton Chair of Industrial Relations, then to the Cambridge chair in 1964; he stayed there until his retirement from the Professorship in 1983; on his election to the Cambridge chair, Bert Turner became a Professorial Fellow of Churchill College, and a Life Fellow on becoming Professor Emeritus in 1984; Turner also served as an advisor and consultant for foreign governments and international organisations; he died in Veneux-les-Sablons, near Fontainebleau, on December 2, 1998)

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