- Robin Harrison
Alick Robin Walsham Harrison (1900 – c. 1970) was a British academic who was Warden of
Merton College, Oxford from 1963 until 1969. [Martin, G.H. & Highfield, J.R.L. (1997). "A History of Merton College". Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-920183-8.]He was born in 1900 and was educated at Haileybury and Merton College, Oxford. He became a master at
Westminster School and returned to Merton in 1930. At the start of the second world war he entered government service in the Ministry of Food, where he became the Private Secretary to the minister Lord Woolton. In 1950 he returned to Merton in his old job as ancient history don. He served for a time as Domestic Bursar and was elected Warden in 1963. He was the author of various academic books mainly dealing withlaw in theancient world , including "The Law of Athens" (1968), Oxford, Clarendon Press, ISBN 0-19-825172-6. He was a man of "untiring scholarship, good sense, and sound judgment". ["Classical Review", New Ser., Vol. 20, No. 3 (December 1970), pp. 387–390]Notes
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