Barry Supple

Barry Emanuel Supple, CBE, FBA (born 27 October 1930, Hackney, London), is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former director of the Leverhulme Trust. He is the father of theatre and opera director Tim Supple.

Education Hackney Downs School (where he was a contemporary of Harold Pinter) London School of Economics (Honorary Fellow, 2001) Christ's College, Cambridge

Career Assistant Professor of Business History, Harvard University, 1955–1960 Associate Prof. of Economic History, McGill University, 1960–1962 University of Sussex: Lecturer, Reader, then Professor of Economic and Social History, 1962–1978; Dean, School of Social Sciences, 1965–1968; Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Arts and Social Studies), 1968–1972; Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1978 University of Oxford: Reader in Recent Social and Economic History, 1978–1981; Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1978–1981 Professorial Fellow, 1981–1983, Honorary Fellow, 1984, Christ's College, Cambridge Master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1984-1993 (Honorary Fellow, 1993) Director, Leverhulme Trust, 1993–2001

Honours and other positions Honorary Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford 1986 Associate Fellow, Trumbull College, Yale University, 1986 Chairman, Consultative Committee of Assessment of Performance Unit, Department of Education and Science, 1975–1980 President, Economic History Society, 1992–1995 Fellow of the British Academy, 1987; Foreign Secretary, 1995–1999 CBE, 2000

Selected bibliography Supple, Barry. Doors Open. Cambridge, UK: Asher, 2008. (Autobiography; described in The Clove's Lines 3.2 [March 2009]: 13.) Supple, Barry. "Harold Pinter – Some Memories." The Clove's Lines: The Newsletter of The Clove Club: The Old Boys of Hackney Downs School 3.2 (March 2009): 6–7. Print.