Alick Robin Walsham Harrison CBE (15 November 1900 – 18 May 1969) was an English academic, Warden of

Merton College, Oxford Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of Oxford University, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the ...

, from 1963 until his death in 1969.

Life

Robin Harrison was born on 15 November 1900 in Hambledon, Surrey and was educated at Haileybury and

. He became a master at Westminster School and returned to Merton in 1930. In 1932 he married Margaret, eldest daughter of

Sir David Ross Sir William David Ross (15 April 1877 – 5 May 1971), known as David Ross but usually cited as W. D. Ross, was a Scottish Aristotelian philosopher, translator, WWI veteran, civil servant, and university administrator. His best-known wor ...

. He was a nephew of

Sir Francis Younghusband Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is remembered for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia; especially the 1904 British e ...

and a cousin of Eileen Younghusband. At the start of the Second World War he entered government service in the Ministry of Food, where he became Deputy Director of Public Relations and Private Secretary to the minister Lord Woolton. He was awarded an

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

in 1943 and made a CBE in 1950. That year he returned to Merton to take up his old job as Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History. He served for a time as Domestic Bursar and was elected Warden in 1963. He was involved in university planning and helped in the foundation of two new colleges,

Wolfson See also Woolf, Woolfe, Wolff, Wolfson and Woolfson (especially for family names). Wolfson or Volfson is a Jewish surname, and may refer to: * David Wolfson, Baron Wolfson of Sunningdale (born 1935), British politician and businessman, nephew of ...

and St. Cross. He was made an honorary fellow of both. He was the author of various academic books mainly dealing with law in the ancient world, including ''The Law of Athens''. He was a man of "untiring scholarship, good sense, and sound judgment". Harrison died on 18 May 1969 in Oxford.

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Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Fellows of Merton College, Oxford Wardens of Merton College, Oxford People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College 1900 births 1970 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English antiquarians People from the Borough of Waverley 20th-century antiquarians {{UK-academic-bio-stub