| LC control no. | n 50048190 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | King, Anthony, 1934-2017 |
| Variant(s) | King, Anthony Stephen |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Birth date | 1934-11-17 |
| Death date | 2017-01-12 |
| Place of birth | Toronto (Ont.) |
| Field of activity | Elections |
| Affiliation | Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) Magdalen College (University of Oxford) University of Essex British Academy Academia Europaea American Academy of Arts and Sciences Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) |
| Profession or occupation | Political science teachers College teachers Television journalists |
| Found in | Butler, D. E. The British general election of 1964, 1965. Both ends of the avenue, c1983: CIP t.p. (Anthony King) Ph. call to pub., 10/12/82: (Anthony King is also the author of Britain says yes and Westminster and beyond; b. 11/17/34) The guardian, 15 January 2017, online, viewed 15 March 2017 (Anthony King, political scientist, author and professor of government at Essex University who became a popular television commentator on election nights, has died aged 82; born in Toronto; attended Queen's University for history, took a Rhodes scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford, finishing with another first-class degree in PPE, then began his doctorate at Nuffield College (1958-61) and completing it at Magdalen (1961-65); took a position at Essex University and never retired) Wikipedia, viewed 15 March 2017: Anthony King, professor (Anthony Stephen King FBA; Canadian-British professor of government, psephologist and commentator; born in Canada on 17 November 1934; earned a B.A. in History and Economics at Queen's University, Ontario, then moved to UK as a Rhodes Scholar to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford, after which he gained a D.Phil.; initially taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, before transferring to the University of Essex, from which he never officially retired; regularly appeared on election results programming and analysed their implications, serving as BBC television's analyst on their election night programming for each general election from 1983 to 2005; elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010, and was a member of the Academia Europaea, a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; died 12 January 2017) Amicus database, 15 March 2017 (authorized access point: King, Anthony Stephen; variant access point: King, Anthony, 1934- ) |
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