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Max Beloff, Baron Beloff
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Max Beloff, Baron Beloff (2 July 1913-22 March 1999) was a British historian. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal of the University College of Buckingham, now the University of Buckingham.
Max Beloff was the oldest child of a gifted Jewish family.[1] He was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (Scholar; MA; Honorary Fellow, 1993).
He was made a Life peer with the title Baron Beloff, of Wolvercote in the County of Oxfordshire in 1981.
- Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, 1937
- Assistant Lecturer in History, Manchester University, 1939-46
- World War II service: Royal Corps of Signals, 1940-41.
- Nuffield Reader in Comparative Study of Institutions, Oxford University, 1946-56
- Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, 1947-57
- Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration, Oxford University, 1957-74, then Professor Emeritus
- Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1957-74, Emeritus Fellow, 1980-99
- Supernumerary Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1975-84
- Principal, University College of Buckingham, 1974-79
- Honorary Professor, St. Andrews University, 1993-98.
He was a governor of the University of Haifa.
- Hutchinson's Encyclopaedia of Britain
- Who was Who
- The Times, 24 March 1999, p23