About Peter Self
Lived 1919 – 1999 (aged 79). Peter Self was a journalist, political scientist, university teacher and economist.
Peter John Otter Self (7 June 1919 – 29 March 1999) was an English journalist, academic, planning policy-maker and university teacher of planning.
Early life Self was born in Brighton, to Audrey (Otter) and Henry Self, a civil servant. Self was educated at Lancing College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector, working on a farm. In his academic career, he became Professor of Public Administration at the London School of Economics, where he was a prominent member and leader of its Greater London Group research centre. He was also a prominent member of the Town and Country Planning Association. thumb
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Who was Peter Self?
English academic (1919–1999)
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Peter Self was born on 7 June 1919 in Brighton.
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Peter Self died on 29 March 1999 in Canberra.
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Peter Self was a journalist, political scientist, university teacher and economist.
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