Pears, David Francis, 1921-2009

Identity area

Type of entity

Person

Authorized form of name

Pears, David Francis, 1921-2009

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

1921-2009

History

Pears, David Francis, brother of Michael Andrew Pears (qv); b. 8 Aug. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (H, non-res. KS); left July 1939; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1939, BA MA 1947 (1st class hons Litt. Hum.); RA in WW2; lecturer Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1948-50; Fellow and Tutor Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf. 1950-60; visiting Prof. Harvard Univ. 1959, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1964, Rockefeller Univ. 1967, Los Angeles Univ. 1979; FBA 1970; Student of Ch. Ch. 1960-88; Reader in Philos­ophy Univ. of Oxford 1971-85, Prof. 1985-88; Delegate OUP 1977; chairman Oxford Museum of Modern Art 1974-85; Curator of Pictures Ch. Ch. 1975-88; a Governor of the school 1975-88; author of Bertrand Russell and the British Tradition in Philosophy 1967, Ludwig Wittgenstein 1969, Motived Irrationality 1984, The False Prison: a Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, vol. I 1987, vol. II 1988; m. 1963 Anne Drew; d. 1 July 2009

Places

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Access points area

Subject access points

Place access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

GB-2014-WSA-13629

Institution identifier

GB 2014

Rules and/or conventions used

International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

Status

Final

Level of detail

Full

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

Language(s)

Script(s)

Sources

The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1919 to Election 1989, Volume 4, compiled by F.E. Pagan and H.E. Pagan, Padstow, 1992

Maintenance notes

  • Clipboard

  • Export

  • EAC

Related subjects

Related places