Robin Harrison
{{For|the British-born Canadian musician and composer|Robin Harrison (pianist)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
Alick Robin Walsham Harrison CBE (15 November 1900 – 18 May 1969){{cite web|title=HARRISON, Alick Robin Walsham|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U55639|work=Who Was Who|publisher=A & C Black|accessdate=10 May 2013}} was an English academic, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1963 until his death in 1969.Martin, G.H. & Highfield, J.R.L. (1997). A History of Merton College. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-920183-8}}."Mr A. R. W. Harrison", The Times [London, England], 19 May 1969: 10, The Times Digital Archive : 17 July 2012.
Life
Robin Harrison was born on 15 November 1900 in Hambledon, Surrey and was educated at Haileybury and Merton College, Oxford.{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|pages=127–128}} He became a master at Westminster School and returned to Merton in 1930. In 1932 he married Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir David Ross.{{cite news|title=Marriages|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxford&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS286336912&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|accessdate=10 May 2013|newspaper=The Times|date=16 December 1932|page=17}} He was a nephew of Sir Francis Younghusband and a cousin of Eileen Younghusband. At the start of the Second World War he entered government service in the Ministry of Food, where he became Deputy Director of Public Relations and Private Secretary to the minister Lord Woolton. He was awarded an OBE in 1943{{cite news|title=The Birthday Honours|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxford&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS134692036&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|accessdate=10 May 2013|newspaper=The Times|date=4 June 1943|page=8}} and made a CBE in 1950.{{cite news|title=The Birthday Honours|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxford&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS50547400&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|accessdate=10 May 2013|newspaper=The Times|date=8 June 1950|page=3}} That year he returned to Merton to take up his old job as Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History.{{cite news|title=University News|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxford&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS136923748&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|accessdate=10 May 2013|newspaper=The Times|date=4 March 1950|page=8}} He served for a time as Domestic Bursar and was elected Warden in 1963.{{cite news|title=New Warden Of Merton|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxford&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS203514719&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|accessdate=10 May 2013|newspaper=The Times|date=31 October 1962|page=12}} He was involved in university planning and helped in the foundation of two new colleges, Wolfson and St. Cross. He was made an honorary fellow of both.Postmaster, 1969
He was the author of various academic books mainly dealing with law in the ancient world, including The Law of Athens.{{cite book|last=Harrison|first=Robin|title=The Law Of Athens|year=1968|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198251726}} He was a man of "untiring scholarship, good sense, and sound judgment".{{cite journal|last=de Ste. Croix|first=G. E. M.|title=Review of A. R. W. Harrison 'The Law of Athens: the Family and Property'|journal=The Classical Review|date=December 1970|volume=20|series=New Series|issue=3|pages=387–390|doi=10.1017/S0009840X00227571|s2cid=159914283 }}
Harrison died on 18 May 1969 in Oxford.
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{s-start}}
{{s-aca}}
{{succession box
| before=Geoffrey Mure
| title=Warden of Merton College, Oxford
| years=1963–1969
| after=Rex Richards }}
{{s-end}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Robin}}
Category:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
Category:Wardens of Merton College, Oxford
Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:20th-century English antiquarians
Category:People from the Borough of Waverley
Category:20th-century antiquarians
{{UK-academic-bio-stub}}