About Ronald Mansbridge
Lived 1905 – 2006 (aged 100). Ronald Mansbridge was a publisher.
Ronald Mansbridge (11 November 1905, Sanderstead – 1 September 2006, Weston) He had two older sisters and one older brother, and left Macmillan two years later to establish the Cambridge University Press American Branch. Beginning with a workforce of nine, Scholarly Publishing, Publishers Weekly, English Today, and Verbatim. In 1929, he published Three Centuries of Cambridge Bibles in Publishers Weekly; the article was later included in a reprint of the commemorative book 300 Years of Printing the Authorised Version of the Holy Bible at Cambridge, 1629–1929 as a three-page end material. Beginning in 1928, he also wrote bridge columns for several publications, They had two children: Jane Mansbridge, now Adams Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Bruce Mansbridge, a psychiatrist. In 1970, Mansbridge and Georgia moved to London when he accepted the role of Managing Director at Yale University Press' UK office; they had an apartment in London and a cottage in Kent but returned to Weston two years later. the Century Association (admitted 1947), The Baker Street Irregulars, and the American Daffodil Society. He was also part of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, of which he was elected vice-president in 1940. He was an avid bibliophile and had a sizeable collection of Cambridge University Press books printed between 1584 and 1800. It is now housed in the collection of fine books at the Waseda University Library, Tokyo.
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Who was Ronald Mansbridge?
British officer of academic presses (1905-2006)
When was Ronald Mansbridge born?
Ronald Mansbridge was born on 11 November 1905.
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Ronald Mansbridge died on 1 September 2006.
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Ronald Mansbridge was a publisher.
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