Richard Littlehailes

Richard Littlehailes (1878–1950 ) was a British educationist and administrator who spent most of his career in India. He was Vice chancellor of the University of Madras from 1934 to 1937.

Biography

Littlehailes did his initial schooling from Bede School, Sunderland and gained an exhibition at from Balliol College, Oxford

During a function held on the eve of departure of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan to Oxford University in 1936 he quoted— Radhakrishnan had raised himself step by step. When would he reach the summit of the Mount Everest of his career? Would he aspire to higher things in the life and emulate such a man as Woodrow Wilson, who has at one time a professor; and ended up as President of the United States of America? His prophecy came true when Radhakrishnan became the second President of India in 1962.