Background
ROBBINS, Lionel Charles was born in 1898 in Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England.
ROBBINS, Lionel Charles was born in 1898 in Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England.
Bachelor of Science London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1923. Master of Arts University Oxford, 1924. Honorary Degrees Universities, Dunelm, Exeter, Strathclyde, Sheffield, Heriot-Watt, Columbia, Cambridge, Leicester, Strasbourg, California, London, Lisbon, York, Stirling, Royal College Art, Pennsylvania.
Robbins became a research assistant of William Beveridge in 1923, and a lecturer at New College, Oxford in 1924. In 1925, he started his long-term relationship with the London School of Economics, where he stayed for the rest of his career. He was initially a Lecturer (from 1925 to 1927), and was named a Professor of Political Economics in 1929. He taught there until 1961. He was also a Fellow and Lecturer at New College, Oxford 1927-1929.
In 1932, Robbins published his well-known methodological treatise, An Essay in the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, which ensured him international fame.
During the Second World War, Robbins served as Director of the Economic Section of Offices of the War Cabinet. From 1954 to 1955, Robbins was President of the Royal Economic Society. In 1959, Robbins received high recognition for his work, being created a life peer, as Baron Robbins of Clare Market in the City of Westminster.
Robbins resigned from the LSE in 1961 to accept the chairmanship of the Financial Times, serving in that position until 1970.
Robbins was Chairman of the Committee on Higher Education, from 1961 to 1964. He published his famous Robbins Report in 1963, which revealed the need for additional resources in British higher education. His report eventually led to the major expansion of higher education in the Great Britain in the 1960s and 1970s.
Robbins was a member of the Court of Governors at the London School of Economics and its Chairman from 1968 to 1974.
He was named a Professor of Political Economics in 1929. In 1959, Robbins received high recognition for his work, being created a life peer, as Baron Robbins of Clare Market in the City of Westminster. He was also a Trustee of the National Gallery, 1952-1959, 1960-1967, and 1967-1974, and for the Tate Gallery, 1953-1959, and 1962-1967. From 1955 to 1981, he was Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and President of the British Academy 1962-1967.
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Autobiography of an Economist.
A History of Economic Thought: the London School of Economics Lectures, edited by Warren J. Samuels and Steven G. Medema.
Robbins has been actively engaged in art, especially painting and opera, after the Second World War.
Robbins was born in Sipson, west of London, the son of Rowland Richard (1872-1960) and Rosa Marion Robbins (nee Harris). His father was the eighth of nine children. Their father was a prosperous greengrocer, with shops in Knightsbridge and Kensington. Lionel's mother was the fourth of eleven children.
