John David Mabbott Explained

John David Mabbott (Duns, 18 November 1898 – Islip, Oxfordshire, 26 January 1988)^[1] was a British academic who worked as the president of St John's College, Oxford, from 1963^[2] to 1969.^[3]

Education

Mabbott was educated at Berwickshire High School,^[4] the University of Edinburgh, and St John's.

Career

Mabbott was a lecturer in classics at the University of Reading from 1922 to 1923; and then a Lecturer at the University College of North Wales from 1923 to 1924.^[5] He was fellow of St John's from 1924 to 1963;^[6] tutor from 1930 to 1956;^[7] and senior tutor from 1956 to 1963. He wrote: 'The State and the Citizen', 1948; 'An Introduction to Ethics', 1966; 'John Locke', 1973; and 'Oxford Memories', 1986.^[8]

During World War II, Mabbott was commissioned by the Foreign Office to produce reports on popular transfers after the war, in particular the feasibility of forcible expulsion of ethnic Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia.^[9]

Notes and References

1. News: Mr. John Mabbott . . 28 January 1988 . 62989 . 18.
2. News: St. John's, Oxford, To Have New Head . . 26 January 1963 . 55609 . 6.
3. [Isaiah Berlin]
4. Pike, Jon "MABBOTT, John David" in Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers (ed.) Stuart Brown et al, Bristol; Thoemmes Continuum, (2005) reprinted in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (2006)
5. 'University News' The Times Thursday, 24 Apr. 1924 Issue 43634 p.8
6. Book: Simpson, A.W.B . A. W. B. Simpson . Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention . 2001 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-826289-3 . registration. p.210, fn.223 Oxford; OUP; 2001
7. https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/sjc.prod/documents/1413-St_Johns-TW_mag-2016_10W1.pdf TW, St John's Magazine, May 2017
8. [British Library]
9. Book: Frank, Matthew James . Expelling the Germans : British opinion and post-1945 population transfer in context . 2007 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-923364-9 . Oxford . 173502785 . registration.