Desmond Hobart Houghton Papers
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Houghton, Desmond Hobart, “Desmond Hobart Houghton Papers”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/14147
- Description
- Desmond Hobart Houghton (24 October 1906 – 1976) was born in Alice in the Eastern Cape, and educated at St. Andrew’s College, Grahamstown, Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Amongst his many achievements he is remembered for his Directorship of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, his active membership of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) and his membership of the University College of Fort Hare Council from 1954 – 1959. Professor Hobart Houghton taught Economics at Rhodes from 1933 to 1966 (but for the period 1939-1945), and thereafter, until 1973. During his forty years at Rhodes, Hobart Houghton made significant contributions to thinking about the economic problems of South Africa as a whole, but his particular concern, and the major focus of his research, was the problem of poverty and economic development in the Eastern Cape region, in which the University is situated. The country's economic problems, and those of the Eastern Cape in particular, are clearly no less pressing today than in the past.
- Subject
- Uncatalogued
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013498
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Creator
- Houghton, Desmond Hobart
- Type
- Text
- Extent
- 26 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator
- MS 20 002
- Item sets
- Cory Finding Aids & Selected Inventories
Houghton, Desmond Hobart, “Desmond Hobart Houghton Papers”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/14147
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