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Sir Tony Wrigley, 90, historical demographer
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Michael Rhodes
Mar 3, 2022, 4:11:08 AM3/3/22
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Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley, commonly known as Tony Wrigley, has passed away on Friday, February 25, 2022, at age 90. He was a historical demographer. Wrigley and Peter Laslett co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 1964.
https://deathobits.com/2022/03/01/sir-edward-anthony-wrigley-death-a-historical-demographer-has-died-at-age-90/
Wrigley’s scholarly works are concerned with demographic history, as well as the long-term causes and consequences of urbanization and industrialization. Wrigley is best known for his 1988 book Continuity, Chance, and Change, in which he explained why Malthus was wrong about the law of diminishing returns slowing population growth. His most famous work, however, is The Population History of England, 1541-1871, which he co-authored with Roger S. Schofield and was published in 1981.
Wrigley completed undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Peterhouse, Cambridge between 1949-1958. He was elected as a Fellow of Peterhouse in the latter year and held office until 1979, when he became an Emeritus Fellow there and also Professor of Population Studies at the London School of Economics. He ceased the professorship in 1988 to become a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and returned to Cambridge as Professor of Economic History for the period 1994-1997.
As of 2019, he was an Honorary Fellow at Peterhouse. He was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1994 until 2000, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1980, serving as president from 1997 to 2001. He was also a member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the recipient of the 2005 Leverhulme Medal and Prize awarded by the British Academy and in the same year became a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College.
In 1960, Wrigley married Mieke Spelberg, with whom by 1972 he had three daughters and a son.
https://deathobits.com/2022/03/01/sir-edward-anthony-wrigley-death-a-historical-demographer-has-died-at-age-90/
Wrigley’s scholarly works are concerned with demographic history, as well as the long-term causes and consequences of urbanization and industrialization. Wrigley is best known for his 1988 book Continuity, Chance, and Change, in which he explained why Malthus was wrong about the law of diminishing returns slowing population growth. His most famous work, however, is The Population History of England, 1541-1871, which he co-authored with Roger S. Schofield and was published in 1981.
Wrigley completed undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Peterhouse, Cambridge between 1949-1958. He was elected as a Fellow of Peterhouse in the latter year and held office until 1979, when he became an Emeritus Fellow there and also Professor of Population Studies at the London School of Economics. He ceased the professorship in 1988 to become a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and returned to Cambridge as Professor of Economic History for the period 1994-1997.
As of 2019, he was an Honorary Fellow at Peterhouse. He was Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1994 until 2000, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1980, serving as president from 1997 to 2001. He was also a member of both the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the recipient of the 2005 Leverhulme Medal and Prize awarded by the British Academy and in the same year became a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College.
In 1960, Wrigley married Mieke Spelberg, with whom by 1972 he had three daughters and a son.
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