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Peter Ritchie Ritchie-Calder
Baron cr 1966, of Balmashannar (Life Peer); CBE 1945; MA (Edinburgh) 1961;author and journalist; Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, California, 1972-75;
b 1 July 1906; s of David Lindsay Calder and Georgina Ritchie, Forfar, Angus; m 1927, Mabel Jane Forbes, d of Dr David McKail, Glasgow; three s two d. Educ: Forfar Academy. Work: Police court reporter, Dundee Courier (1922), D. C. Thomson Press (London office, 1924, Glasgow, 1925), Daily News (1926-30), Daily Chronicle (1930), Daily Herald (1930-41). Author, scientific, social and political journalist and broadcaster (radio and television). Science Editor, News Chronicle, 1945-56. Dept of FO, 1941-45; Editorial Staff, New Statesman, 1945-58; Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Edinburgh University, 1961-67. Chm., Metrication Bd, 1969-72. Vis Prof., Heriot-Watt Univ., 1973-; Charles Beard lectr, Ruskin College, Oxford, 1957; Bentwich Lectr, Hebrew Univ., 1973; Brodetsky Lectr, Leeds Univ. 1973. Member Council British Association, Pres. Section X, 1955; Fell. Amer. Assoc. for Advancement of Science; Fabian Executive; Secretary of H. G. Wells' Debate, and Viscount Sankey Cttee, on New Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1940; Mem. British delegn to Unesco (Paris, 1946, Mexico City, 1947, 1966, 1968); special adviser at FAO Famine Conf. (Washington, 1946); Desert survey for Unesco, 1950; chief, special UN Mission to SE Asia, 1951; Mission (UN auspices) to Arctic, 1955; Member UN Secretariat, at Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy Confs, 1955 and 1958, and Member WHO group on mental aspects of Atomic Energy, 1957; Consultant-Editor, UN Science and Technology Conference, Geneva, 1963; Chm. Chicago University study group on Radiation in the Environment, 1960; Special UN Mission to Congo, 1960; 2nd UN Mission to SE Asia, 1962. Chairman Association of British Science Writers, 1949-55. President: Mental Health Film Council; National Peace Council; British Sub-Aqua Club, 1971-74; Danforth Foundation Lecturer, USA, 1965. UK Commn for WHO; UK Commn for Unesco; Cons., OXFAM; Vice-Pres. Workers' Educational Assoc., 1958-68; Member: Gen. Council, Open Univ., 1969-81; Community Relations Commn, 1968-70; Council, Internat. Ocean Inst., 1970-; House of Lords Select Cttee on Sci. and Technology, 1980-; Chm., Adv. Cttee on Pollution of the Sea, 1977-; Consultant, US Librarian of Congress, 1976. Fellow, World Acad. of Arts and Science; DUniv Open, 1975; DSc York, Ont, 1976. Kalinga Internat. Award for science writing, 1960; Victor Gollanz Award for service to humanity, 1969; New York Library Jubilee Medal, 1961; WHO Med. Soc. Medal, 1974. Publications: Birth of the Future, 1934; Conquest of Suffering, 1935; Roving Commission, 1935; Lesson of London, 1941; Carry on, London, 1941; Start Planning Britain Now, 1941; Men against the Desert, 1951; Profile of Science, 1951; The Lamp is Lit, 1951; Men against Ignorance, 1953 (UNESCO); Men Against the Jungle, 1954; Science in Our Lives, 1954 (USA); Science Makes Sense, 1955; Men against the Frozen North, 1957; Magic to Medicine, 1958; Medicine and Man, 1958; Ten Steps Forward: The Story of WHO, 1958; The Hand of Life: The Story of the Weizmann Institute, 1959; The Inheritors, 1960; Agony of the Congo, 1961; Life-Savers, 1961; Common Sense about a Starving World, 1962; Living with the Atom, 1962; World of Opportunity (for United Nations), 1963; Two-Way Passage, 1964; The Evolution of the Machine, 1968; Man and the Cosmos, 1968; Leonardo and the Age of the Eye, 1970; How Long have we got?, 1972; The Pollution of the Mediterranean, 1972; Understanding Energy, 1979. Recreation: carpentry. Address: Philipstoun House, Linlithgow, W Lothian EH49 7NB. T: Philpstoun 187. Clubs: Savile; Scottish Arts, University Staff (Edinburgh); Century (New York). Died 31 Jan. 1982. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kittybrewster (talk • contribs) 12:36, 11 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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