Lionel Charles Robbins

Lionel Charles Robbins 1898-1984, British economist, b. Middlesex, England. A professor at the London School of Economics (1929-61), he wrote the well-known methodological treatise, An Essay in the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (1932). A supporter of the free market system and an opponent of Keynes , his work was influential in the advancement of economics as a philosophy and science. As chairman of the Committee on Higher Education (1961-64), Robbins was instrumental in bringing about significant reforms in the British university system.

Mitchell, Donald (Charles Peter) (b London, 1925). Eng. publisher, critic, and author. Man. dir., Faber Music 1965–71, chairman 1977–86. Chairman, Performing Right Soc. 1989–93. Visiting Fellow, Sussex Univ. 1970, prof. of mus. 1971–6. Founder and co-ed., Music Survey 1947–52; mus. critic for Musical Times 1953–7, Daily Telegraph 1959–64; ed. Tempo 1958–62. Joint ed. Benjamin Britten (1952), The Mozart Companion (with H. C. Robbins Landon, 1956). Ed. Gustav Mahler by Alma Mahler (Eng. edn.). Author of Gustav Mahler: Vol. I, The Early Years (1958 rev. ed. 1979), Vol. II, The Wunderhorn Years (1975), and Vol. III, Songs and Symphonies of Life and Death (1985); The Language of Modern Music (1963); Benjamin Britten, 1913–76: Pictures from a Life (with J. Evans, 1978); Britten and Auden in the Thirties (1981); Letters from a Life: Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten (with P. Reed, Vol. I 1923–39 and Vol. II 1939–45 (1991)); Cradles of the New, Writings on Music 1951–1991, ed. M. Cooke (1995). CBE 2000.