Thomas Loveday (university administrator)

Thomas Tudor Loveday (15 August 1875[1] – 4 March 1966) was an English academic who was Principal of Southampton University College (1920–22) and later Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol (1922-1944).[2][3]

Early life

Loveday was born in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, the son of John Edward Taylor Loveday, a landowner, and Margaret Cheape of Scotland, the granddaughter of John Arbuthnott, 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott. His great-great-grandfather was the antiquary John Loveday. He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and later attended Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained an MA.[2] He won the John Locke Scholarship in 1900, and worked as an Assistant Lecturer at the University college of Bangor.[3]

In December 1901, he was elected to a Senior Demyship in Magdalen College.[4]

Career

He had been Professor of Philosophy at what was then the South African College in Cape Town, South Africa. He was later at Armstrong College then part of the University of Durham.[5] He took up his position at Southampton at Easter 1920 and emphasized the importance of better buildings for the college. During his short time at Southampton two more halls of residence were built, one for men and one for women.[5] He was Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals[6] from 1935-1938, Chairman of the Executive Council of the Universities Bureau from 1943–45 and various other committees.[2]

Personal life

He married Mildred Fowle (died 1958) and they had two daughters. He died in Williamscot, near Banbury, Oxfordshire.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1939 England and Wales Register
  2. 1 2 3 4 LOVEDAY, Thomas, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 20 Aug 2013
  3. 1 2 "Mr. Thomas Loveday". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 5 March 1966. p. 10.
  4. ↑ "University intelligence - The Governor of Victoria". The Times (36636). London. 12 December 1901. p. 6.
  5. 1 2 Temple Patterson, Alfred (1962), The University of Southampton, a Centenary History, University of Southampton
  6. ↑ Universities UK - list of Presidents, accessed 20 August 2013
Academic offices
Preceded by
Alexander Hill		 Principal of Southampton University College
1920 - 1922		 Succeeded by
Kenneth Hotham Vickers
Preceded by
E F Francis		 Vice Chancellor University of Bristol
1922 - 1944		 Succeeded by
Professor Arthur Mannering Tyndall FRS
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