Philip Sargant Florence
Economist, Person
1890 –
Who is Philip Sargant Florence?
Philip Sargant Florence was an American economist who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom.
Born in Nutley, New Jersey in the United States, hewas the son of Henry Smyth Florence, an American musician, and Mary Sargant Florence, a British painter. His sister was Alix Strachey. He was educated at Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in England, before studying for his PhD at Columbia University in New York City. In 1917 he married Lella Faye Secor.
In 1921 he was appointed as a lecturer in economics at the University of Cambridge, and in 1929 he was made Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 1955. He was a friend of Robert Dudley Best.
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- Born
- 1890
- Spouses
- Lella Secor Florence
(1917 - )
- Lella Secor Florence
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Died
- Apr 30, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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