Barry Emanuel Supple,

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, FBA (born 27 October 1930, Hackney,

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), is

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of Economic History,

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, and a former Director of the

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. He is the father of theatre and opera director

Tim Supple Timothy Supple (born 24 September 1962) is a British born, award-winning international theatre director. He is the son of the academic Barry Supple. Career Supple has directed and adapted theatre in London and the UK as well as across the world ...

Education

Hackney Downs School Hackney Downs School was an 11–16 boys, community comprehensive secondary school in Lower Clapton, Greater London, England. It was established in 1876 and closed in 1995. It has been replaced by the Mossbourne Community Academy. History ...

(where he was a contemporary of

Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanne ...

) *

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(Honorary Fellow, 2001) *

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Career

* Assistant Professor of Business History,

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, 1955–1960 * Associate Prof. of Economic History,

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, 1960–1962 *

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

: Lecturer, Reader, then Professor of Economic and Social History, 1962–1978; Dean, School of Social Sciences, 1965–1968; Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Arts and Social Studies), 1968–1972; Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1978 * University of Oxford: Reader in Recent Social and Economic History, 1978–1981; Professorial Fellow,

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, 1978–1981 * Professorial Fellow, 1981–1983, Honorary Fellow, 1984,

* Master of

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, 1984-1993 (

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, 1993) * Director, Leverhulme Trust, 1993–2001

Honours and other positions

* Honorary Fellow,

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1986 * Associate Fellow,

Trumbull College Trumbull College is one of fourteen undergraduate residential colleges of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The college is named for Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut from 1769 to 1784 and advisor and friend to General George Wash ...

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, 1986 * Chairman, Consultative Committee of Assessment of Performance Unit,

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, 1975–1980 * President, Economic History Society, 1992–1995 * Fellow of the

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, 1987; Foreign Secretary, 1995–1999 *

, 2000

Selected bibliography

*Supple, Barry. ''Doors Open''. Cambridge, UK: Asher, 2008. (Autobiography; described in ''The Clove's Lines'' 3.2 arch 2009 13.) *Supple, Barry. "Harold Pinter – Some Memories." ''The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of

'' 3.2 (March 2009): 6–7. Print.According to Supple, this account consists of "edited excerpts" from ''Doors Open''. The Clove Club Newsletter is edited by G. L. ("Willie") Watkins, who also edited '' 'Fortune's Fool': A Life of Joe Brearley: The Man Who Taught Harold Pinter'' (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Eng.: TwigBooks, 2008). Brearley taught English literature and directed school theatre productions at Hackney Downs School, which both Supple and Pinter attended from 1942 to 1949 and 1948, respectively; in this memoir Supple recalls Pinter's performance as

Romeo Romeo Montague () is the male protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Romeo and Juliet''. The son of Lord Montague and his wife, Lady Montague, he secretly loves and marries Juliet, a member of the rival House of Capulet, through a priest ...

in Shakespeare's play ''

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'', as directed by Brearley, in which Supple played

Mercutio Mercutio ( , ) is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's 1597 tragedy, ''Romeo and Juliet''. He is a close friend to Romeo and a blood relative to Prince Escalus and Count Paris. As such, Mercutio is one of the named characters in the p ...

, and Brearley's influence on Pinter and other students.

Notes

References

* "Barry Emanuel Supple." Listing in ''Who's Who'' 2005.

External links

Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 3 July 2010 (video)
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