Charles Bosanquet (academic)

Charles Ion Carr Bosanquet (19 April 1903 – 1986) was the first Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University.

Career

Born the son of Robert Carr Bosanquet, Bosanquet was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class honours degree in History. After a career in business and journalism, he worked as a civil servant during World War II. He then became Treasurer of Christ Church, Oxford. ^[1] He was appointed Rector of King's College, Newcastle in 1952 and then became the first Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University in 1963.^[2] In that role he welcomed Martin Luther King, Jr. to the University and presented him with a Doctor of Civil Law degree.^[3]

In 1931 he married Barbara Schiefflin,^[4] an American.^[5]

He lived at Rock Moor House near Alnwick and became High Sheriff of Northumberland.^[6]

References

1. Winchester College Register, 1974
2. "Dr Charles Ian Carr Bosanquet". BBC. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
3. "The Archive". The King Centre. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
4. Robert Carr Bosanquet's wife, Ellen Sophia wrote an autobiography, published by her daughter, Diana Hardman, as Late Harvest: Memories, letters poems around 1965.
5. "St Philip and St James Church Rock". Retrieved 11 January 2014.
6. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 38235. p. 1811. 12 March 1948. Retrieved 11 January 2014.