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Charles Hubert Oldham (1859–1926) was an Irish economics professor.

Early life

Born in Monkstown, County Dublin, Oldham was educated at Kingstown Grammar School, and then studied at Trinity College Dublin. His sisters were Edith Best (who married Richard Irvine Best) and Alice Oldham.

Career

Oldham was the first professor of National Economics at University College Dublin. Oldham was President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland from 1924 to 1926.

Politics

In his Dictionary of Irish Biography entry, Oldham is described as a "Gladstonian liberal", but also holding strong Irish nationalist sympathies as an admirer of the writings of Young Irelander Thomas Osborne Davis. A close friend of Oldham was Irish separatist and Fenian John O'Leary. Oldham managed the southern branch of the Irish Protestant Home Rule Association.

Personal life

Oldham was friends with analytical chemist Arthur Cranwill (treasurer of the Irish Protestant Home Rule Association), and encouraged his daughter, the future designer and metal artist Mia Cranwill to study Irish history and mythology during her visits to Dublin. Oldham married German painter Katharina (née Taesler) in the mid 1880s. They had no children, and she survied him following his death on 20 February 1926.

References

  1. ^ McGee, Owen (2009). "Oldham, Charles Hubert". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  2. Clarke, Frances (2009). "Cranwill, Maria ('Mia')". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Royal Irish Academy. Retrieved 2024-12-30.


Category:1859 births Category:1926 deaths Category:19th-century Irish economists Category:20th-century Irish economists

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