Background
Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson was born on April 17, 1874 in Manchester, England. Son of Joseph and Annie (Ritson) Dewsnup.
Dewsnup, Ernest Ritson was born on April 17, 1874 in Manchester, England. Son of Joseph and Annie (Ritson) Dewsnup.
Bachelor of Arts, Owens College (Victoria U.), Manchester, 1895. Master of Arts, 1900, Warburton research prizeman, 1902, Stanley Jevons student in economic research, 1903. Studied in Paris, 1902.
Head of department higher commercial education and Sikes lecturer in economics, Technology College, Huddersfield, England, 1899-1803. Lecturer in railway transport, University of Manchester, England, 1903-1904. Professor lecturer in rys. and curator Commercial Museum, University of Chicago, 1904-1907, also secretary advisory board railway education, Chicago.
Professor railway administration and head of department of transportation, University of Illinois, 1907-1920.
Chaddock professor of commerce, University of Liverpool, since 1920. Statistical and finance officer, Department of Movements and Rys., War Office, London, 1918-1919.
Fellow Royal Statistical Society of England. Member American Economics Association.
Married Sarah Jane Gibbs, of Swansea, South Wales, June 19, 1897.