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7 unusual facts about University of Leeds


A. W. H. Pearsall

The eldest son of William Harold Pearsall, (1891–1964), F.R.S., and professor of freshwater biology at Sheffield University and Manchester University, and his wife Marjorie Williamson, a lecturer in botany, was born at Leeds, while his parents were both lecturers at the University of Leeds.

Bodington Hall

Bodington Hall is a site owned by the University of Leeds, which contains the university's main playing fields and what was its largest hall of residence.

F. W. Moorman

Frederic William Moorman (1872-1918) was a professor of English Language and Literature at Leeds University in England.

James Clifford Brown

From 1948 until retirement in 1983 he was a lecturer, then senior lecturer, in the music department of the University of Leeds.

Laneham

Running to 12 volumes and 4,000 pages, they were lost, but were re-discovered in the library at the University of Leeds in 1988.

Malvern House College

Malvern House commences its partnership with major UK universities such as Oxford Brooks University, Middlesex University, University of Leeds.

Tetley Hall

Tetley Hall was a catered hall of residence located in Headingley at the University of Leeds, England.


A. R. Taylor

In January 1947 Arnold began the career which dominated his life, gaining a lectureship in the English Department at the University of Leeds, where he succeeded Bruce Dickins (who had himself succeeded Arnold's tutor E. V. Gordon when Gordon left Leeds for Manchester) in teaching medieval English, Old Norse and modern Icelandic Studies.

Amber Beattie

Amber Beattie attended William Patten Primary School, underwent secondary education at Stoke Newington School – Media Arts & Science College in Hackney, attended La SWAP sixth form in London and now studies Zoology at the University of Leeds.

Andrew Mangham

He gained distinction in his Masters Degree in Victorian Literature from the University of Leeds, and moved to the University of Sheffield to study for a PhD with Sally Shuttleworth.

Barr and Stroud

Archibald Barr and William Stroud had been associated from as early as 1888 when the two men were professors of, respectively, engineering and physics at the Yorkshire College (now the University of Leeds).

Boff Whalley

Together with his fellow members of Chimp Eats Banana, Midge and Danbert Nobacon, he moved to Leeds in 1981 and studied at the University of Leeds, dropping out after a year before moving into the South View House squat in Armley.

Charles Talbut Onions

On completion of the OED, the universities of Oxford, Leeds, and Birmingham conferred honorary degrees upon him.

Charles Thackrah

A building was opened in his honour and given his name at the University of Leeds in around 2007.

David Beetham

Beetham worked at the University of Manchester until April 1980 when he left to take up the Professorship of Politics (succeeding Ralph Miliband) at the University of Leeds.

Derek Bickerton

A graduate of the University of Cambridge, England in 1949, Derek Bickerton entered academic life in the 1960s, first as a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and then, after a year's postgraduate work in linguistics at the University of Leeds, as Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Guyana (1967–71).

Esther Hall

Born in Manchester in 1970 and brought up in Cheshire, she took A levels in Manchester before training in theatre arts for three years at the University of Leeds's Bretton Hall College where she gained a Bachelor of Arts.

Francisco García Tortosa

Also between 1964 and 1968 he was Reader in Spanish at Kingston College, London, and at the University of Leeds.

G. L. S. Shackle

Following the war, a short spell at the Cabinet Office under James Meade and at the University of Leeds led to appointment as professor of economics at the University of Liverpool, a post he held until his retirement in 1969.

Henry Gee

Gee earned his B.Sc. at the University of Leeds and completed his Ph.D. at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where, in his spare time, he played keyboard for a jazz band fronted by Sonita Alleyne, who went on to establish the TV and radio production company Somethin’ Else.

Hugo Anthony Meynell

After completing his graduate work Dr. Meynell taught at the University of Leeds before moving to the University of Calgary in 1981.

John Drexel

A New England native, John Drexel is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and holds an M.A. in English from the University of Leeds, England, where his thesis advisor was Geoffrey Hill.

Jorn Madslien

Born in 1967 in Oslo, Norway, Jorn was a medical officer in the Norwegian cavalry, before reading philosophy at the University of Oslo and economics at the University of Leeds.

K. V. Akshara

After attending primary education at Heggodu village and Sagar town, he studied theatre at National School of Drama, New Delhi and at Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.

Katrina Honeyman

Honeyman held temporary posts at the universities of Aberdeen and Manchester before taking up an appointment in the School of Economic and Social Studies at the University of Leeds in 1979.

Kenneth Woolmer, Baron Woolmer of Leeds

Woolmer was the son of Joseph Woolmer, and was educated at Kettering Grammar School, moving on to the University of Leeds where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics; after leaving university he became a university lecturer at Leeds.

Linton, West Yorkshire

Owen Lattimore (1900-1989), eminent American scholar of Mongolia and China, and Central Asia generally, lived in the village for a time during the 1960s while he was the first Professor of Chinese at the University of Leeds.

Max Hamilton

He went on to work under Dennis Hill at King's College Hospital and in 1953, was appointed lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Leeds where few years later he constructed the Hamilton Anxiety and Hamilton Depression Rating Scales.

Michael Paraskos

He went on to attend the University of Leeds and University of Nottingham, studying at Nottingham with Fintan Cullen to gain his doctorate on the aesthetic theories of Herbert Read in 2005.

Minchenden Grammar School

Graham Robert Allan, mathematician and an expert on Banach algebras, Professor of Pure Mathematics from 1970-8 at the University of Leeds

Newport High School, Bettws Lane

Prof Graham Dixon-Lewis, FRS, Professor of Combustion Science from 1978-87 at the University of Leeds

Pinch analysis

The techniques were first developed in late 1977 by Ph.D. student Bodo Linnhoff under the supervision of Dr John Flower at the University of Leeds.

Thaddus E. Weckowicz

Weckowicz received his Bachelor of Medicine (MB and ChB) from the Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, his Diploma in Psychological Medicine (DPM) from the University of Leeds and his PhD from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds

The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds (TheCCLeeds), previously the Leeds University Liturgical Choir, was formed by Dr Bryan White, Dr Stephen Muir and Prof. Philip Wilby of the School of Music, University of Leeds in 2002, with the primary purpose of performing sacred choral music in liturgical settings.

United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols model

It is a collaboration of the Met Office with the University of Cambridge, University of Leeds, University of Oxford, University of Reading, University of East Anglia, and Lancaster University in the UK and the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research of New Zealand.

Vic Allen

Allen was appointed a Lecturer at the University of Leeds in 1959 and became Professor of the Sociology of Industrial Society in the School of Economic Studies at Leeds in 1973.

Wil Edmunds

Edmunds has a degree in music from Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds, and a masters degree in social psychology from the University of Liverpool.

Woodhouse Moor

The park was once part of a much larger moor of the same name, including land now occupied by the University of Leeds.

Woodhouse Moor is north-west of Leeds city centre and is bounded by Woodhouse, the University of Leeds, Burley, Hyde Park, and Headingley.


see also

Djedi Project

Robert Richardson (UK), lecturer in engineering systems and design, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK

Dowson

Duncan Dowson (born 1928), British engineer and professor emeritus at University of Leeds

Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth

In 1970, Boyle was awarded a life peerage as Baron Boyle of Handsworth, of Salehurst in the County of Sussex and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.

Feel Tank Chicago

Its founders are Lauren Berlant, an English professor at the University of Chicago who focuses on publics and affects; Vanalyne Green, a professor in Fine Art at the University of Leeds; Debbie Gould, a sociologist of political feelings at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Patten, a writer and video artist at the Art Institute of Chicago, and Rebecca Zorach, an art historian at the University of Chicago.

Geoffrey Hill

Hill was awarded an honorary D.Litt. degree by the University of Leeds in 1988, the same year he received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award.

St James's University Hospital

All of the Hospital buildings except Chancellor's Wing are named after surrounding streets in the Leeds suburb of Harehills (Chancellor's Wing is named after the then Chancellor of the University of Leeds, HRH The Duchess of Kent, who opened the building in 1972).