Kenneth Wheare

Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare, CMG (26 March 1907 – 7 September 1979)[1] was an Australian academic, who spent most of his career at Oxford University in England.[2] He was an expert on the constitutions of the British Commonwealth.[3]

Early life and family

Wheare was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne[1] and was later a student at Oriel College, Oxford, gaining a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and also undertaking postgraduate study. He met his wife Joan (1915–2013) when he was her tutor.[4] One of their sons is Tom Wheare.

Career

Political career

Wheare served on the Oxford City Council from 1940 to 1957.

Academic career

In 1944, he was appointed Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College. In 1956, he became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. A gargoyle of his likeness is carved on the Bodleian Library, visible from the Exeter College Fellows' Garden.[1]

Wheare was Chairman of the Rhodes Trust (1962–69), President of the British Academy (1967–71), Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1972. He was also a Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1964–66.[5]

Honours

He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1953 and was knighted in 1966.

In 2017, Oxford Brookes University named a newly rebuilt lecture hall after Wheare.[6]

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References

Poynter, J. R. "Wheare, Sir Kenneth Clinton (1907–1979)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
Beloff, Max (2004). "Wheare, Sir Kenneth Clinton (1907–1979) (subscription required)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31822. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
Markwell, Donald (2016). Constitutional Conventions and the Headship of State: Australian Experience. Connor Court. ISBN 978-1925501155. Appendix 3: Two Constitutional Scholars: Sir Kenneth Wheare and Dr Eugene Forsey.
"Joan Wheare: Rebel with many causes". Oxford Mail. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
"Previous Vice-Chancellors". UK: University of Oxford. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
"New hall named in honour of Sir Kenneth Wheare". UK: Oxford Brookes University. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2019.

Academic offices
Preceded by Eric Arthur Barber	Rector of Exeter College, Oxford 1956–1972	Succeeded by Greig Barr
Preceded by Walter Fraser Oakeshott	Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1964–1966	Succeeded by Kenneth Turpin

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[ADB-1] Poynter, J. R. "Wheare, Sir Kenneth Clinton (1907–1979)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 July 2011.

[2] Beloff, Max (2004). "Wheare, Sir Kenneth Clinton (1907–1979) (subscription required)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31822. Retrieved 9 January 2020.

[3] Markwell, Donald (2016). Constitutional Conventions and the Headship of State: Australian Experience. Connor Court. ISBN 978-1925501155. Appendix 3: Two Constitutional Scholars: Sir Kenneth Wheare and Dr Eugene Forsey.

[4] "Joan Wheare: Rebel with many causes". Oxford Mail. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2015.

[5] "Previous Vice-Chancellors". UK: University of Oxford. Retrieved 14 July 2011.

[6] "New hall named in honour of Sir Kenneth Wheare". UK: Oxford Brookes University. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2019.

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