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 Vice Chancellor of Durham University, alternating in the role with the Warden of the Durham Colleges, and then became the first Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University in 1963 upon the independence of King's College from Durham University.[2] In that role, on 13 November 1967, he welcomed Martin Luther King Jr. to the University, presenting him with a Doctor of Civil Law degree.[3][4]

Personal life

In 1931 Bosanquet married Barbara Schiefflin,[5] an American.[6]

He lived at Rock Moor House near Alnwick and became High Sheriff of Northumberland.[7]

References
  1. Winchester College Register, 1974
  2. "Dr Charles Ian Carr Bosanquet". Art UK. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  3. "Luther's Crowned King". Newcastle University Students' Union. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  4. "The Archive". The King Centre. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  5. Robert Carr Bosanquet's wife, Ellen Sophia wrote an autobiography, published by her daughter, Diana Hardman, as Late Harvest: Memories, letters poems around 1965.
  6. "St Philip and St James Church Rock". Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  7. "No. 38235". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 March 1948. p. 1811.
Academic offices
Preceded by
New Post		 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1963–1968		 Succeeded by
Henry Miller
Preceded by
Sir James Fitzjames Duff & Lord Eustace Percy		 Vice-Chancellor & Warden of the University of Durham
1952–1960
With: Prof Sir James Fitzjames Duff until 1958		 Succeeded by
Prof. Sir Derman Christopherson
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