Donald Cuthbert Coleman

Background

COLEMAN, Donald was born on January 21, 1920 in London. Son of Hugh Augustus Coleman and Marian Stella Agnes Cuthbert.

Education

He gained his first degree and Doctor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and was appointed to a post there of Lecturer in Industrial History in 1951.

Career

After attending The Haberdashers" Aske"s Boys" School, an independent school in Elstree in Hertfordshire, Coleman served in the Royal Artillery in Africa, Italy and Greece during World World War II, reaching the rank of major. He stayed at London School of Economics as Reader and (1969-1971) Professor of Economic History, and then moved to the University of Cambridge as Professor of Economic History and Fellow of Pembroke College in 1971, taking early retirement in 1981 to concentrate on his scholarly work. He was editor of the Economic History Review 1967-1972.

The annual Coleman Prize of the Association of Business Historians is named in his memory.

Works

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  • Sir John Banks: Baronet and Businessman, a Study of Business Politics and Society in Later Stuart England
  • Courtaulds, Vol. III : An Economic and Social History:Crisis and Change 1940-65

Interests

• Gardening.

Connections

Married Jessie Ann Matilda Child (nee Stevens) in 1954.

Father:

Hugh Augustus Coleman

Mother:

Marian Stella Agnes Cuthbert

Spouse:

Jessie Ann Matilda Child