Background
CAIRNCROSS., K r.M.G. M A. PH D. was born on February 11, 1911 in Lesmahagow, Scotland. Son of Alexander Kirkland Caimcross and Elizabeth Andrew Wishart.
CAIRNCROSS., K r.M.G. M A. PH D. was born on February 11, 1911 in Lesmahagow, Scotland. Son of Alexander Kirkland Caimcross and Elizabeth Andrew Wishart.
Hamilton Academy, University of Glasgow and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Lecturer, University of Glasgow 1935-1939. Held various Civil Service posts 1940-1946. On staff of The Economist 1946.
Economics Adviser.
Board of Trade 1946-1949. Director Economics Division Organization of European Economic Cooperation 1950. Professor, of Applied Economics, University of Glasgow 1951-1961.
Director Economics Development Institute, Washington.
District of Columbia 1955-1956; Economics Adviser to British Government 1961-1964. Head of British Government Economics Service 1964-1969.
Master, Saint Peter"s College, Oxford 1969-1978, Honorary Fellow since 1978. Supernumerary Fellow Saint Antony"s College, Oxford since 1978.
President Royal Economics Society 1968-1970, Scottish Economics Society 1969-1973.
Adviser to Minister of Transport on Proposals for Channel Tunnel 1979-1981. President Section V. President Bachelor of Arts.A.S. 1970-1971.
Foreign. President Girls’ Public Day School Trust since 1972.
Honorary Fellow, London School of Economics 1981, Saint Antony’s College since 1990. Honorary Doctor of Laws (Mount Allison University, Glasgow, Reading, Exeter), Honorary Doctor of Letters (Heriot Watt), Honorary Doctor of Science (Liniv. of Wales, Queen"s University, Belfast), Honorary degree (Stirling).
Council of Manager National Institute of Social and Economics Research. Of numerous committees, including Working of the Monetary System 1957-1959, Police Pay 1977-1979. American Academy, of Arts and Sciences.
Married Mary Frances Glynn in 1943.