Laurence Martin

Sir Laurence Woodward Martin DL (born 30 July 1928) is a former Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University.

Career

Educated at St Austell Grammar School, Christ's College, Cambridge and Yale University, Martin joined the Royal Air Force as a Flying Officer in 1948.[1] He became Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Wales in 1966.[2]

He was appointed Professor of War Studies at King's College, London in 1968, Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University in 1978 and Director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1991.[1] In 1981 he gave the Reith Lectures on the theme The Two-Edged Sword.[2] He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Tyne and Wear in 1987.[2]

Works
  • Considerations affecting an extension of the test ban, 1966
gollark: Apple is probably less bad for privacy since they're not basically an ad/data-mining company.
gollark: Like an old Kindle (did you know they run a weird Linux OS, the UI is basically done entirely in HTML/CSS, everything is root, and they have something like 4GB of storage total?)
gollark: I have tons of mostly unused old portable computery devices for reasons.
gollark: Android 4.4 or something!
gollark: I have an old Android tablet which works okay, though I probably wouldn't *buy* one (it was free-to-me in some way).

References
  1. Academic Archives Hub Archived 29 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Debrett's People of Today
Academic offices
Preceded by
Sir Michael Howard		 Head of Department of War Studies, KCL
1968–1978		 Succeeded by
Wolf Mendl
Preceded by
Henry Miller		 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1978–1990		 Succeeded by
James Wright
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