About Henry Clay
Lived 1883 – 1954 (aged 71). Henry Clay was a British economist.
Sir Henry Clay (9 May 1883 – 30 July 1954) was a British economist and Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.
Clay was educated at the Bradford Grammar School and University College, Oxford. He authored the 1916 book Economics. An Introduction for the General Reader.
Between 1917 and 1919 Clay worked as a temporary civil servant at the Ministry of Labour, where he worked closely with Harold Butler. In 1917 Clay helped found the Romney Street Group, a think tank which aimed to generate policies on post-war reconstruction. From 1919 and 1921 he was a fellow of New College, Oxford. He was knighted in 1946. In 1947, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
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economist (1883–1954)
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Henry Clay was born on 17 January 1883.
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Henry Clay died on 30 July 1954.
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Henry Clay was an economist.
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Henry Clay was British.
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