Sargant Florence
(Philip) Sargant Florence (1890–1982), economist
1890 Born on 25 June 1890 at Nutley, New Jersey, USA, the son of Henry Smythe Florence and his wife, Mary Sargant-Florence.
Attended Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, studying history and then economics. He was greatly interested in social as well as economic questions.
1913 Served on the British Association committee on fatigue (to 1915)
1914 Obtained a first-class degree in economics.
1915 Investigator for the Health of Munitions Workers Committee (1915–16).
Studied at Columbia University, New York, where he took his PhD degree with a thesis on the effects of fatigue on the productivity of workers.
1917 Married Lella Faye Secor, in New York. They had two sons.
1921 Lecturer in economics at Cambridge University
1929 Appointed professor of commerce at the University of Birmingham.
1947 Dean of the faculty of commerce and social science at Birmingham to 1950
1952 Appointed an honorary CBE.
1955 Retired but had visiting professorships at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Rhode Island.
From 1972 until his death he was a vice-president of the Royal Economic Society.
1892 died at Highfield, Birmingham, on 29 January.
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Sources of Information
- Biography, ODNB