Samuel Berrick Saul (30 October 1924 – 24 May 2016) was

Vice-Chancellor A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system. In most Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations, the chancellor ...

of the University of York from 1979 to 1993.University of York
Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of the University Saul was born 30 October 1924 in

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and educated at West Bromwich Grammar School. After

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in the

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he studied at the

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, where he obtained a

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in 1949 and PhD in 1953.Who's Who in the World, 1980, vol 5 His academic career began at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

and he was also a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar to the USA.Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1959 Moving to the

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, he rose to become Professor of

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and head of the department of Economics, then Vice-Principal and Acting Principal of the University.''Glasgow Herald'' 13 December 1978, page 1 "Now Edinburgh University faces cash problems"

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