Charles Bosanquet

Charles Ion Carr Bosanquet (19 April 1903 – 9 April 1986) was a Vicechancellor of Durham University, and the first Vice-chancellor of Newcastle University. Career Bosanquet was born on 19 April 1903 in Athens, where his father, Robert Carr Bosanquet, was Director of the British School of Archaeology. He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he graduated in 1925 with a first class honours degree in History. For two years he worked as a journalist for the Financial News, then moved to the merchant bank Lazard Brothers in the City of London. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the Civil Service, and was a Principal Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture from 1941 to 1945. In 1945, Bosanquet became Treasurer of Christ Church, Oxford. He was appointed Vicechancellor of Durham University in 1952, and held this position in alternation with James F. Duff until 1960. From 1952 onwards, he was also Rector of King's College in Newcastle upon Tyne, which at the time was part of Durham University. Bosanquet played an important role in steering the college towards its independence in 1963, when he became Vicechancellor of the newly-created Newcastle University. In that role, on 13 November 1967, he welcomed Martin Luther King Jr. to the University, presenting him with a Doctor of Civil Law degree.