Stanley R. Dennison

Stanley Raymond Dennison (15 June 1912 – 22 November 1992), an economist, was the third vice-chancellor of the University of Hull.

Dennison was born in North Shields, the son of a gas company clerk. He was educated at Tynemouth Municipal High School, Armstrong College, Newcastle (then part of the University of Durham), and subsequently Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a first class (division two) in Part II of the economics tripos in 1935 (one of only five students to receive a first that year – three of the others were David Bensusan-Butt, Richard Stone and D. G. Champernowne).

From 1935 to 1939 he lectured in economics at the University of Manchester, where he wrote the influential book The Location of Industry and the Depressed Areas (1939). In 1939 he was given a chair as professor of economics at University College Swansea, but shortly after, in 1940, he was appointed chief economic assistant at the War Office.