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Sydney Checkland was born on 9 October, 1916, is a British economic historian (1916–1986). Discover Sydney Checkland's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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Sydney Checkland Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Sydney Checkland worth at the age of 70 years old? Sydney Checkland’s income source is mostly from being a successful historian. He is from . We have estimated Sydney Checkland's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Of his many scholarly publications, The Gladstones: a Family Biography, 1764-1851 (1971) won a Scottish Arts Council book award and Scottish Banking: a History, 1695-1973 (1975) won a Saltire Society prize.
Sydney George Checkland FRSE (9 October 1916 – 22 March 1986) was a British-Canadian economic historian.
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Checkland worked at the Bank of Nova Scotia, then the Ottawa Sanitary Laundry Company, while he gained associate membership of the Canadian Bankers' Association.
In 1938, he moved to England to study at the University of Birmingham, and in his final year served as President of the Guild of Students at the university.
In 1941, he was elected as President of the National Union of Students, serving for only one year before becoming President of the International Council of Students.
In late 1942, Checkland enrolled at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, then was commissioned as a lieutenant into the Manchester Regiment, before becoming a tank commander in the Governor General's Foot Guards of the Canadian Army.
An injury during the Normandy landings at Falaise left him with permanent nerve damage.
Checkland met Edith Olive Anthony in Birmingham and they married in 1942.
Olive nursed Sydney back to health following his war injuries.
Olive Checkland was an eminent scholar in her own right in the field of social history.
After the war, Checkland joined the Common Wealth Party and stood unsuccessfully in Sheffield Ecclesall at the 1945 general election.
He then returned to study for a master's degree at Birmingham, after which he took up an academic post in economic science at the University of Liverpool, where he also obtained a doctorate.
In 1953, he transferred to the University of Cambridge, then in 1957 he accepted a personal chair at the University of Glasgow and founded the Department of Economic History.
Checkland also served as a board member with the East Kilbride Development Corporation, 1964 to 1968.
During his career as a historian Checkland contributed to the development of archival records.
In Liverpool he collected the archives of merchant firms and he later initiated the University of Glasgow's collection of business records.
He chaired of the Scottish Records Advisory Council, the National Register of Archives (Scotland) and was vice-president of the Business Archives Council of Scotland.
Checkland's own papers are held by Glasgow University Archive Services.
He was a member of the Economic History Committee of the Social Science Research Council and then a Council member between 1970 and 1972.
He is credited with "being instrumental" in the establishment in 1976 of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow "strong in the fields of business, banking, and urban history".
Sydney Checkland was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 1977, and as Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1981.
He was President of the Economic History Society between 1977 and 1980.
He quickly developed a strong reputation in a range of fields relating to economic history, and continued to write until his death in 1986.
