John David Mabbott (

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, 18 November 1898 –

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, 26 January 1988) was a British academic who worked as the

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, from 1963 from to 1969.

Education

Mabbott was educated at

Berwickshire High School Berwickshire High School is a six-year comprehensive school located west of Duns, Scotland. History It was first opened in 1896, by Walter John Mabbott, who was the first Rector of the school. It started out with accommodation for 80 pupils in ...

; the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

; and St John's.

Career

Mabbott was a

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at the

University of Reading The University of Reading is a public university in Reading, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1892 as University College, Reading, a University of Oxford extension college. The institution received the power to grant its own degrees in 192 ...

from 1922 to 1923; and then a

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at the

University College of North Wales , former_names = University College of North Wales (1884–1996) University of Wales, Bangor (1996–2007) , image = File:Arms_of_Bangor_University.svg , image_size = 250px , caption = Arms ...

from 1923 to 1924. He was

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of St John's from 1924 to 1963;

tutor TUTOR, also known as PLATO Author Language, is a programming language developed for use on the PLATO system at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign beginning in roughly 1965. TUTOR was initially designed by Paul Tenczar for use in co ...

from 1930 to 1956; and

senior tutor Senior (shortened as Sr.) means "the elder" in Latin and is often used as a suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent. It may also refer to: * Senior (name), a surname ...

from 1956 to 1963. He wrote: 'The State and the Citizen', 1948; 'An Introduction to Ethics', 1966; 'John Locke', 1973; and 'Oxford Memories', 1986. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, Mabbott was commissioned by the

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to produce reports on popular transfers after the war, in particular the feasibility of forcible expulsion of ethnic Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia.

References

People educated at Berwickshire High School 1898 births 1988 deaths People associated with the University of Reading Academics of Bangor University Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Presidents of St John's College, Oxford People from Duns, Scottish Borders Scottish philosophers 20th-century British philosophers {{Scotland-philosopher-stub