John Vaizey, Baron Vaizey

John Ernest Vaizey, Baron Vaizey (1 October 1929 – 19 July 1984)[1] was a British author and economist, who specialised in education.

Background and education

Vaizey was the son of Ernest Vernon Vaizey and his wife Lucy Butler Hart.[2] He was educated at the school of Queen Mary's Hospital and then went to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he read economics.[3][4]

Career

In 1952, he joined the United Nations Office at Geneva and after a year was elected a fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.[3] Three years later in 1956 Vaizey became a lecturer at the University of Oxford.[3] He moved to the University of London in 1960, where he oversaw a research unit as its director for the next two years.[3] Subsequently, Vaizey went to Worcester College, Oxford, having been appointed to its fellowship.[3] While at Worcester College, Vaizey set up a committee to aid people arrested in Oxford for importuning, having accused the police of using agents provocateurs in policing public spaces.[5] In 1966, he obtained the newly created professorship at the Brunel University, heading its school of social sciences from 1973.[1] He served as an early Chief Examiner for the subject of economics for the International Baccalaureate.[6]

Vaizey was offered the post of the vice-chancellor of the Monash University, based in Melbourne in 1975; however, after attacks by Australian artists against his close friend Bryan Robertson, who should have taken over the directorship of the National Gallery of Victoria, he declined the offer.[7] In the 1976 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours he was designated for a life peerage and, on 23 June, he was created Baron Vaizey, of Greenwich, in Greater London.[8] Having taken the Labour whip, in 1978 he left the party and joined the Conservatives in advance of the general election the following year.[4] In his last years Vaizey served as principal of the St Catherine's Foundation at Cumberland Lodge.[2]

Family

In 1961, he married the author Marina Stansky, daughter of the lawyer Lyman Stansky from New York City.[9]

One of their children is the Conservative Party politician Edward Vaizey.[10]

Lord Vaizey died on 19 July 1984 in St Thomas' Hospital, London, following heart surgery.[1][4]

Works
  • The Trade Unionist and Full Employment (1955)
  • The Costs of Education (1958)
  • Scenes from Institutional Life and Other Writings (1959)
  • The Brewing Industry 1886–1951: An Economic Study (1960)
  • Britain in the Sixties: Education for tomorrow (1962)
  • The Economics of Education (1962)
  • Education in a Class Society: The Queen and her Horses Reign ([1963])
  • The Control of Education (1963)
  • Barometer Man (1966)
  • The Costing of Educational Plans (1967)
  • Industry and the Intellectuals (1970)
  • The Type to Succeed (1970)
  • Capitalism (1971)
  • Education (1971)
  • Social Democracy (1971)
  • The History of British Steel (1974)
  • Education in the Modern World (1975)
  • Political Economy and the Problems of Our Time (1975)
  • Capitalism and Socialism: A History of Industrial Growth (1980)
  • In Breach of Promise: Gaitskell, Macleod, Titmuss, Crosland, Boyle: Five Men who shaped a Generation (1983)
  • National Health (1984)

Arms
Coat of arms of John Vaizey, Baron Vaizey
Crest
Between two martlets respectant Sable a cubit arm in armour the hand gauntleted and holding a sprig of oak leaves Proper.
Escutcheon
Azure on a cross engrailed between four cross crosslets erased Argent a Catherine wheel of the field.
Supporters
On either side a harlequin vested paly Argent and Azure cap and shoes Or supporting with the exterior hand a staff Proper.
Motto
Evasi [11]

Notes
  1. Cleveland (1985), p. 147
  2. Turner (1985), p. 410
  3. Dod (1984), p. 284
  4. Blake, Robert (23 September 2004). "John Ernest Vaizey, Baron Vaizey". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  5. 'Importuning: Protest over arrests' Birmingham Daily Post 17 November 1966
  6. "The International School of Geneva and the United World Colleges in the early years of the International Baccalaureate".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Jones (2006), pp. 234–235
  8. "No. 46945". The London Gazette. 25 June 1976. p. 8867.
  9. "Obituary, Lyman Stansky". The New York Times. 29 November 1993. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  10. Musson, Jeremy (14 February 2008). "Interview: Ed Vaizey". Country Life. Retrieved 3 January 2010.
  11. Debrett's Peerage. 1985.

References
  • Charles Roger Dod; Robert Philip Dod (1984). J. Berwick Smith (ed.). Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1984. London: Dod's Parliamentary Companion Ltd.
  • William A. Cleveland, ed. (1985). Britannica Book of the Year 1985. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. ISBN 0-85229-428-X.
  • Jones, Barry (2006). A Thinking Reed. Crowns Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-74114-387-X.
  • Turner, Roland (1985). The Annual Obituary 1985. St Martin's Press. ISBN 0-912289-53-8.

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